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Blue’s magic seems to work by granting the very deep wishes of the pure-hearted. At least in his final moments as August, apparently he was that, and his deepest wish was a chance to have a do over, according to Adam.
I’m not sure August really got to redeem himself enough though…he tried to warn them about Tamara, but he never got to really apologize for everything else he did. I was disappointed that a three-way convo between him, Emma, and Neal never happened. I mean, Neal can fill Emma in on whatever details he got from August during their conversations, but Emma doesn’t entirely trust Neal anymore–because of August. Gah.
Still, I hope that they will actually use adorable little Pinocchio at least a bit and not throw away the whole character just because the story is mostly resolved. I hate when they do that, even if it is a practicality thing in several cases. I want to see Henry actually hang out with Pinocchio and Grace and Gretel and Hansel for a bit. I know that won’t happen, but it’d still be nice if Pinocchio didn’t drop off the face of the earth at this point.
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How come when Rumple offered Neal the chance to turn back the clock and return to storybrooke with him was such a bad thing, but when that happens to August we should be happy?
You’d think the Blue Fairy’s magic would have turned him into the normal august. The August we’ve grown to love is essentially dead now right? Pinocchio’s persona is not 100% domniant? To lose all of his memories from the 26 something years seems kind of awful?
Adam said it was what August “desperately wanted,” so I guess it counts as a happy outcome for him. Clearly it’s not what Neal wanted, and I doubt Emma would want it, either. Of the three, Neal had the most say in his fate–he didn’t choose to be separated from his father, but he did choose to leave the Enchanted Forest. Pinocchio was seven (at least in boy-age; who knows his actual age) and he lost all guidance in that moment (no cricket!); Geppetto almost physically put him in the wardrobe. And I think he regretted almost everything from the moment he left Emma to the moment he came back to Storybrooke to try to put things right; when the curse broke he already felt defeated and like a failure. I don’t think he was really happy, though he was always seeking pleasure, from the moment he entered that wardrobe.
Emma of course had no say at all in the matter, but that means she also doesn’t have any real point to go back to–if you go back to infancy then you lose EVERYTHING that makes you yourself, so of course she wouldn’t want that. She’s got things to be a grownup for, like Henry. So, incidentally, does Neal–who had just found out he was a father when his dad pulled that on him. SRSLY Gold?
August didn’t have anything real to show for those 29 years, apparently. Just a lot of mistakes.
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Emma of course had no say at all in the matter, but that means she also doesn’t have any real point to go back to–if you go back to infancy then you lose EVERYTHING that makes you yourself, so of course she wouldn’t want that. She’s got things to be a grownup for, like Henry. So, incidentally, does Neal–who had just found out he was a father when his dad pulled that on him. SRSLY Gold?
August didn’t have anything real to show for those 29 years, apparently. Just a lot of mistakes.
I can see why this would be the big solution for August. Putting all “Sneaky fairy is sneaky” theories aside for the moment, August, unlike Neal or Emma, has no reason to stay an adult — from the looks of things he has no children or stable adult relationships to hold on to. He’s not satisfied with the way his life turned out and definitely not happy with the man he became, whereas Marco is essentially the same age as when August went through the wardrobe, so they CAN recover the lost time and get one big huge Do-Over.
Even though Neal and Emma have Henry, I still don’t see them being unhappy enough with their lives to go back to that point. With Emma, it would be 100% erasure, but with Neal, going back to 14 still isn’t going to fix the root problem that made him run in the first place since his father will still be the Dark One. I can totally see a re-teenager-ed Neal pulling something like Henry’s stunt with the dynamite, and then we’d be going down this same path again.
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