Grandpapa Robert

[RumplesGirl]

We finally met David’s father, Robert. What did you think of his story from selling his son to a journey to Pleasure Island?

[AKA]

I actually liked it, it was about a man who was trying to redeem himself and right his family.  Unfortunately it did not have a happy ending.  I liked the parallel with Rumple and I was actually surprised that they had Hook kill him.

[TheWatcher]

Unfortunately it did not have a happy ending.

And this is what I liked about it in a weird way.

I like those moments this show has where characters don’t get the happy ending or the light at the end of  the tunnel. Robert tried and had good intentions and wanted to make his family and himself whole again…and he failed. Because life doesn’t always work out for the best.

But anyway I just have one question and forgive me if it was answered in the show: WHY WAS HIS GHOST APPEARING TO DAVID?

What caused this to start happening? Was it the spell? Was it the coin? Why did he disappear when the coin was thrown? Do ghosts just appear now?

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[Gaultheria]

WHY WAS HIS GHOST APPEARING TO DAVID?

I think Hook got it right when he told David to get some sleep. Although David can stay awake by not kissing Snow, and can use the extra time awake to obsess over the coin, it’s like that Star Trek TNG episode where everybody started hallucinating because they couldn’t enter the right stage of sleep to clear the fatigue poisons out of their brains.

As for why the ghost hallucination appeared like a flickering video effect with scan lines, men living on their own watch a lot of TV.

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[Gaultheria]

This episode plays like a real (ie, cautionary) fairy tale. Robert did try to abduct a boy away from the only father the boy knew, so at the end of the tale Robert got payback for his crime, with interest.

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