The Pen is Alive

[Slurpeez]

Well he did once has aspirations of writing his father back to life. *sigh*

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[nickyhelp]

Slurpeez wrote:

The concept of the pen somehow being alive is a bit on the silly side, but since this is a silly fantasy show, I’ll let it slide. I’m more interested to know what Henry will do now that he knows about it. Once he finds the pen, what exactly will he write?

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Well he did once has aspirations of writing his father back to life. *sigh*

But I’m guessing he can “write” everyone home since we keep hearing that the only way to leave Hellbrooke is to the better place or the worse place.

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You forgot about life exchange (which is a terrible price).

[MatthewPaul]

Well he did once has aspirations of writing his father back to life. *sigh*

But I’m guessing he can “write” everyone home since we keep hearing that the only way to leave Hellbrooke is to the better place or the worse place.

I’m guessing either:

1) Cruella is either lying, or not properly informed about the quill’s power.
or
2) The quill can only restore those from the Underworld and those with unfinished business, not souls from “the better place” or “the worse place.” Would the souls in “the better place” even want to come back to life, if they are happy there with no unfinished business? Even Neal said that he was happy there, which very much felt like the writers way of saying that he won’t ever return to the land of the living. Yeah, I know realistically Neal would want to come back for Emma and Henry, but the writers still said that he was in “a better place” because he didn’t have unfinished business, despite the the lack of logic behind this idea.

[kranen]

OMG Henry murdered the pen. I just realized that. Holy smokes, is that everyone but Belle? Is everyone a murderer now?

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Well in theory, Belle murdered Gaston.

Rumple turned him into a rose and gave him to her. Then Belle was later seen trimming the rose…. 😉

[Gaultheria]

Also, overall reaction to the pen being alive?

In the sense that the story is never finished, sure, I’ll accept it. At least it’s got elements of Chekhov’s gun rather than being entirely a deus ex machina. And it complements the chisel.

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[Phee]

Keb wrote:

Chip and the creepy Peter Pan doll are down there, too. So why not?

But does that mean that every inanimate object has unfinished business. How silly! I have no problem with the pen being down there but the idea that’s it’s alive and it, its very self has unfinished business, is…silly. Or is Chip going to come to life and talk to Rumple and explain how he’s a very sad tea cup because his OTP is currently on the rocks??

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I feel like things like the doll and Chip were just used as props because, “Hey guyz, it’s those props you luved, so we’re re-using them for funziez and FEELS.” And they’re making the Pen a different thing.

Didn’t they establish though, that it was the will of the Author that could control the Pen? So, even if the Pen contains magic, it’s not a sentient being in its own right? Therefore, it shouldn’t have special rules applied to it whereby it knows it has unfinished business.

I can get behind the idea in the sense that the concept of Henry being the Author was so very unfinished, and now they’re trying to rectify how they just dropped the whole thing, by giving Henry the means to be the Author again. But the way they’re going about it is a bit weird. It kinda smacks of them being desperate to find a way to bring Henry back into significance, and the logic of the situation be damned. But even if they’re going about it in a silly way, I can at least appreciate that they want to give some significance back to Henry.

[RumplesGirl]

In the sense that the story is never finished,

I agree there’s something meta to this idea of an alive pen, but I wish it was a little more metaphorical and less literal.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[thedarkonedearie]

Because the chipped cup and Pan doll are down there, this was fine for me.  At least they are being consistent.  Silly, but consistent.  Could the chipped cup be a person?  Is it actually a boy like the movie?  Does that mean the pen is actually a person that somehow ended up a pen? Haha.

[Slurpeez]

I wonder if the pen is going to enable Henry to rewrite the narrative again, the way he did at the end of 4×22. It seems like this time he won’t be so easily persuaded to stop at just resetting it; it seems like he might be motivated to make some alterations of his own this time. Moreover, I’m wondering if there is consequently going to be an encounter with the Brothers Grimm, whom many have speculated to be the brothers in the casting call for the finale. Henry being the newest author and their being collectors and editors of folklore and fairytales could be a nice connection.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[RumplesGirl]

I wonder if the pen is going to enable Henry to rewrite the narrative again, the way he did at the end of 4×22

Maybe but it would feel like a 180 from Henry’s final scene in S4. He broke the pen because he believed that no one should have that much power–to do what Isaac did, essentially. So for him to pick up the quill and try to rewrite stories/fates/whatever would mean that Henry has be given significant breathing room this season to explore why he’d have a change of heart.

But…this is a show that often forgets that Henry is a thing.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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