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@RumplesGirl wrote:
@jbfrancis wrote:
While I’m eager to get Belle back, if it happens in tomorrows finale it’s going to feel just too fast to me. Changing her to Lacey and having the opposite effect on Rumple than Belle does is a big step, and I can’t help feeling it should be explored more. Plus, I think it would mean more (although it would be less romantic) if Rumple comes around on his own, without Belle setting him straight. Wow, I kind of hate me for saying that. I love me a co-dependant Rumbelle!! 😕
I do agree that it’s going to feel fast but I think that has more to do with the pacing of the show. Belle was in the hospital starting episode 12 and didn’t get out until 19. The Cora storyline took over the intervening episodes so they couldn’t trot out Lacey until that was resolved. But, I’d rather just have Belle back at this point. I don’t think Rumple is going to be in a hurry to be any sort of useful until he makes his big sacrifice and then is almost rewarded with the return of Belle.
I think Lacey already did all the damage she could’ve done to Rumple in the last episode. In his desperate attempt to get a TLK from her and restore Belle, he indulged Lacey’s lust for his dark side so much he completely threw in the garbage the small chance to heal his relationship with Bae he got with the events of “The Miller’s Daughter”. It also made him completely oblivious to all that was happening involving Regina, Greg, Tamara, Hook and the beans; in fact, it’s noteworthy that he didn’t even bother to meet fiancée Tamara, for that, knowing Rumple’s exceptional judge of character, could’ve made a world of difference to avoid Neal’s fate.
The Lacey plot, thus, already brought all it could’ve bring to the table to further the storyline. It’s only logical for them to end it in the finale.
[adrotate group="5"]@RumplesGirl wrote:
I think their goal for the end of S2 is to wrap up all the storylines that won’t serve them in S3. So for example, if we are leaving SB (as I strongly suspect) the Curse needs to be “shut down” as it were. The amnesia storylines of Sneezy and Belle need to be resolved so that the focus of S3 can be on NL, Peter Pan, the Home Office and hopefully wrapping up Greg and Tamara.
Pretty much. It’s what season one’s finale did, with Emma finally believing in magic and breaking the curse, which also resolved the last threads of the Mary Margaret/David/Kathryn “triangle” storyline.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
I’ve seen this theory a lot and I’m slowly coming round to it. It would be the most logical explanation for how Sneezy gets his memories back. However, I would like for Belle’s memories to return AFTER Rumple has made a great sacrifice, telling Lacey they can’t be together because it only brings out his darkness and how he will fight for being good. Also how he’s willing to die to pay for his sins and so he won’t seek to destroy Henry. Then, just when he’s hit an absolute low, Belle gets her memories back and she help him realize that he does have something to fight for and hopefully he steps in and help save SB.
I’m confident it’ll happen just as you wish, RG. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it mirrors Belle’s regaining of her memories in “A Land Without Magic” by having her say “Wait! Rumplestiltskin, wait!” just as a disillusioned Rumple turns his back on her. 🙂
@RumbelleDearie wrote:
I was thinking that as well, cause I figured whatever returns Belle’s memories must return Sneezy’s as well. But like RG said maybe that’s what happens for Sneezy, but Rumple somehow brings Belle back before the fail safe thing happens. Would they get their memories back just by Greg smashing the diamond with the axe? Or would everything revert back only after SB is destroyed? In the promo it looks like Belle and Rumple are crying in his shop, so I’m assuming just smashing the diamond sets things in motion and the actually destruction doesn’t have to happen for their curses to be lifted.
I think it’ll comes as a consequence of Regina and Emma stopping the diamond from destroying Storybrooke. I’ve theorized that, since this is described as a failsafe to the Curse, its deactivation would bring an end to what remains of the Curse in Storybrooke, including the barrier of forgetfulness that surrounds the town limits, reverting the effect it had on Belle and Sneezy.
@Jessie:Paradoxes of people wrote:
Say,was anyone else slightly disappointed that they didn’t get Alan Rickman to do the voice of the Blue Caterpillar 1×17?
Funny you should say this, because while Once did such an exceptionally good job with the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, I’m sure no matter how well they do the Cheshire Cat it won’t come even closer to the level of awesomeness I think he had in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. It was the best character of Burton’s version and the definite take of the Cat for me, that’s how much I enjoyed his blue furry design and the way Stephen Fry acted on the role.
Don’t think this has been posted yet:
Michael Raymond-James Discusses the True Hopes and Dreams
of his Character Neal/Baelfire on Once Upon a Time
by Diane J. Reed
http://www.onceuponafans.com/a-drifter-s-golden-dreamProbably the most in-depth interview about Baelfire/Neal MRJ did so far. It’s a great read, he does a really great analysis of who Neal is as a person and what drives him, among other things.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
@Demileto wrote:
Having briefly skimmed the thread, I don’t see why Lake Nostros wouldn’t be able to cure Neal’s wound, since Charming tried using precisely it to cure his mother from a poison arrow one. And in a finale so full of things happening they can’t overextend themselves with this subplot.
But Ruth didn’t drink the water. She faked it and then let Snow drink it during the exchange of vows at the wedding. If she had drunk the water, it probably would have worked.
What I mean is that the show didn’t vent this possible use of the lake for no reason. Charming tried, it didn’t work, but the fact that Ruth didn’t really drink it leaves it open ended whether or not the waters of the lake can be used to cure wounds.
Like I said, the finale is so event packed that they can’t delve too long in a subplot; if not the waters of the lake, then it’ll be Mulan concocting a magical potion from various herbs, but that’ll be an even bigger stretch, won’t it?
Having briefly skimmed the thread, I don’t see why Lake Nostros wouldn’t be able to cure Neal’s wound, since Charming tried using precisely it to cure his mother from a poison arrow one. And in a finale so full of things happening they can’t overextend themselves with this subplot.
@Lorem Ipsum wrote:
Thanks RG! Your explanation works for me 😀 Ok back to my original question. Is the Home Office = Dharma Initiative? Is the Home Office the real evil/bad guys?
Hahaha, I amused myself with that thought just a few days ago! Wouldn’t pretty everyone’s brain explodes with a bunch of W.T.F.s if the Island was revealed to be Neverland? 😆
@RumplesGirl wrote:
@RumbelleDearie wrote:
He said that he’s not sure if we will find out where Neal went in the finale, and the interviewer asked “having at least read the script what do you think of the finale”. So does that mean we won’t see Neal on Sunday? It sounds like he might not be in it 😕
Yeah that confused me because I know we see him. We've seen set pics of Neal with MAP and he's listed in the synopsis for the episode.
Which can always end up becoming deleted scenes. That better not happen, though! 👿
