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@A_Desperate_Soul wrote:
I was so wrong on so many levels about the finale. I got NOTHING right.
Early on, I thought that each person in Storybrooke would turn out to be the counterpart of someone other than the character he or she resembled from fairy tale land. Of course, this became less and less likely as the season progressed, but I still thought it might explain why David’s behaviour was so different from James’. The finale showed that idea to be wrong (and also my alternate explanation, that David was a third identical brother).
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I hope the writers severely limit its effect. A little bit of magic in a non-magical world makes for a powerful story.
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Jefferson is almost unique in Storybrooke for having been aware of the passage of time; it’s been Groundhog Day for him for 28 years. He could have learned all the secrets in Storybrooke, and as long as Regina didn’t find out, nobody would even remember talking to him. Maybe all he meant by “stuck in this house” was “staying under the queen’s radar”.
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@slurpeez108 wrote:
[Belle] is a very moral person who is opposed to the dark magic and believes that love is greater than power. Will she be able to convince Rumpel to give up his power?
I’m not so sure that it’s love that Belle feels for Rumpel. It seems more like Stockholm syndrome to me. Even if she’s too good a person to hate Rumpel for imprisoning her in his dungeon, even if she’s able to forgive him, she seems to be missing a healthy amount of caution.
On the other hand, if it is true love that Belle and Rumpel feel for each other, that could end badly if Rumpel casts a spell that needs a special ingredient of a kind we’ve seen used before.
@slurpeez108 wrote:
We know that Jefferson is a man of magic who is also a time-traveler. He has a magic hat that allows him to go to different realms.
Jefferson really, really should have been Storybrooke’s taxi driver.
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@Arjay369 wrote:
Other than seeing his name on a door in the psych room, couldn’t we have seen a little more of Sydney Glass to have a little update?
Lamp, mirror, cell — poor Sidney, he always ends up locked away.
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I like how even though Snow and Charming are back together in Storybrooke, they still haven’t resolved their problems as MM and David.
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“Indy, throw me the idol!”
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@hjbau wrote:
He didn’t trust Bae though. And he promised Bae that he would try to get rid of his power. And he was too afraid when it came down to it. And he also just let go of Bae’s hand. It is his fault even if i understand that he was afraid. I still think he made a mistake and it is his fault. And i still don’t see Rumpel as any sort of ethical being. He feels no responsibility towards other people at all only towards Bae and his desire to find Bae. That is all he cares about and is willing to do whatever to get that.
Going through the portal with Bae would have been suicide for Rumpel, as far as his Dark One personality was concerned. He had to find a way to trick himself into crossing. The curse guaranteed him a position of power on this side, and that dealt with the fear of vulnerability that originally led him to become the Dark One.
In his magical form, Rumpel cared for his son, but he was amoral. Now that he’s been “clean” for 28 years, he might be able to feel more human remorse and ethics. All of those magical objects that he’s been collecting from his pawns, though, suggest that he hasn’t completely overcome his addiction.
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Rumpel, when he first gained power, was quick to kill adults endangering children. Now, decades (centuries?) later, he’s seen those children grow up, and the next generation, and so on, and he’s had a chance to think about how his victims didn’t simply come into being fully formed as adults.
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I get the feeling that this is a prophecy like “the Chosen One will bring balance to the Force”. Magic has its price, wishes never end well, and deals always have a hidden irony clause. I think that breaking the curse will completely sever the characters’ ties to fairy tale land, releasing them fully into our world. Fairy tales are metaphors for growing up; they’re about going forward, not back.
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