[Keb]

I don’t think it is a retcon–she realizes it’s a remembrance, but he’s using the scarf/blanket–nothing that’s obviously a son’s. This could easily have happened sometime before the scene in Skin Deep where she asks about the son. She’s probably connected the two at that point, but Rumple doesn’t tell her much in Going Home.

And his behavior is consistent with his character, I think, even in the development of their relationship. I think on the timeline it’ll wind up between the curtains scene (sorry, but I disagree that it’s an editing error…yes, yes, I KNOW–no, we don’t need to hash it out here) and the end of skin deep. Incidentally, I have Baelfire’s birthday as March 23rd, as per the wanted poster, which puts it about three weeks after where I have the curtains scene on the timeline now (and actually still a month before she’s ejected from the castle). And, though that’s pretty random, the day after Jack and James climb the beanstalk and battle the giants.

Obviously the precise dates of almost everything are pretty much speculation…but I do appreciate it when stuff comes together that suggests I’m not terribly far off on the timeline. For me, this scene fit, though my initial reaction was wait, but but but she didn’t know about Bae yet…but she still doesn’t, not really. It’s just a piece of the puzzle she’s working out. And it parallels beautifully with Rumple’s reaction in 222 when Lacey wanted to use the scarf to clean the spill; Belle obviously knew about it from 211, but she’d encountered it before and knew it was important back in the EF! Yay!

[Keb]

Belle is going to rescue him! I BELIEVE!

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[Keb]

They introduced a goddess (Ursula) so maybe Belle will go and face a god like Hades to get her Rumple back. She’d do it, too.

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[Keb]

It’s not over. It’s just a cliffhanger. Which we knew would happen.

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[Keb]

Neal’s promise to see them again parallels with Belle’s vow to see Rumple again, though. And she was right.

And…now I must go whimper some more, sorry.

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[Keb]

I would like Rumple’s strength, please.

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[Keb]

I believe so, but the price of magic will have to be paid another way then. or the undoing the curse will have to be undone.

For evidence though, look to 104: Cinderella was not able to see Thomas again until her debt was transferred to Emma. So someone’s going to have to pay the price in some way.

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[Keb]

The fact that the curse seemed to go AROUND the book in 311 suggests that the book survives the curse reversal, too. It’s going to find its way back to Henry somehow.

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[Keb]

Love is a lot bigger than one person. You can love a man and a child, just as you can love both (or all, if you have more than two) of your parents. It doesn’t have to be a replacement.

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[Keb]

Normal people die without their shadows. Fairies can survive if their shadows are returned. Rumple is something supernatural…and his shadow was gone when he killed Pan. Pan’s shadow was destroyed, so Pan could actually die–but remember, he said that Rumple could reverse it even as it was happening, so…

Anyway, they…they wouldn’t spend half an ep hammering in the Hope and then destroy everything without some glimmer of hope, would they?

Poor Belle. Poor Neal.

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