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I am totally not caught up on this thread because I’m about twenty pages behind, but can I just throw out the potential hilarity of conversations between Emma and full-on Dark One Rumple?
Haha! Unfortunately, once again, I think the quality of writing in this thread/forum has a tendency to outshine what we actually get!
I don’t know. If they’re going to release their **own** spoiler, and then come out and try to sell it as Neal (“he’ll live on in our hearts and flashbacks”, TVLine saying it was Neal), then what does holding off the official official nail in the coffin statement until DO322 do but tick fans off even further? The only possible reasons for not confirming the spoiler is (1) SoD is still out there or (2) they are offering a glimmer of false hope to retain some viewers. Well… what did they themselves say about false hope?
IMHO, his #nospoilers tag does not excuse him from responding to his own *#$&@ spoilers. And at the end of the day either Neal lives or he gave false hope through this specific tweet that the SoD was still in play (meaning Neal was not it).
So basically, he’s carrying on like there could be more main character death, but we were only told that ONE will die. Again, he could just be trolling so as not to give anything away, but then how hard is it to answer a question without implying that main character death is an option still on the table?
Hmmmm… or how hard is it just to say very squarely to stop the madness from SF fans “It was Neal. It was MRJ.” And we know that Adam knows that Neal/Bae/Swanfire/MRJ fans are holding out hope because SHATNER. He’s allowing Shatner to hold on hope…
@Phee, I agree that within the show there has been little CS development. I think I’m more talking about all the chatter, publicity, what we are meant to see/think based on media spin… it’s one giant conspiracy. Likewise, within the show, we were not told that Neal was going to die. Yet all external signs pointed that way. We as SF continue to look at the show for our truth, and I think there’s a good possibility that the truth lies in the BTSBS to which we are not privy.
That’s all. Totally love the hope and feels from everyone (I’m not watching), and I have these moments where I picture myself reading Shatner’s “I told you so” tweet as apparently Neal pops up in the last 10 seconds of 322, and I burst into tears like it’s the best day of my life. Evah. But meanwhile, I’m in Le Tent with a paper bag over my head.
Here’s the Good Ship SwanFire after a half season of neglect:
Can she be salvaged? Notice there’s a few of us still sitting on board like she’s gonna suddenly go somewhere. There are others just arriving who don’t understand what’s going on. There are still others just gawking at the travesty of it all. But for the most part, it’s just an irrelevant oddity that can be visited but serves no functional purpose. She’ll remain there… a memorial to good times gone by.
EDIT: And sorry, DSB, no dry dock. There ain’t nobody working to restore this baby… ever. Maybe some painters (fan fic writers) come by and do a watercolor or oil painting imagining what she once was or what she could have been; but there’s no restoring her.
EDIT 2: Now, there are still some SF fans who will see this photo and say, but I see wheels! there are WHEEEEEEELLLLLLSSSSS! lol
Millie said,Speaking of the writers, why are they spamming all these little hints and references to Neal/Baelfire after his death? Is it unintentional and they are doing it without realizing it, are they supposed to be tributes to him, are they hinting that they are going to bring him back in some form or they are doing it to torture and rub it in our face that Neal is dead? I mean seriously A&E what the heck are you doing?!?
I’m pretty sure that it is our way of giving them the benefit of a doubt. In the entire fanbase, we were the ONLY segment who said, “No way Neal is getting killed in 315! It’s too obvious! It’s been telegraphed!” Meanwhile, CS fans were doing victory dances and had marked 315 on their calendars about 30 minutes after the spoiler was released. When A&E/TVline acted like it was such a shocker that Neal died, I swear to Pete the only people shocked in fandom were SFers.
Thus, now, when all signs point to CS, we’re still trying to say, A&E are capable of more! Look at all these cool breadcrumbs, blah blah blah. There has to be more! And, well, no there doesn’t. If we look not-so-hard hard, there were plenty of plot holes and contrivances before this; but our ship still sailed. The hope of a happy ending allowed us to overlook things because, well, we believed in the big picture. Now, instead of #hope and #nospoilers, it’s just #nohope and #spoilers. What you see is what you get. Breadcrumbs and clues are accidental or residual effects of SF being the original endgame (before being derailed by BTSBS).
Add this to the credits:
“This is a work of fan fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are convenient plot devices. Any resemblance to good writing is entirely coincidental.”Ditto, @Rainbow. The ability of Phee, Slurpeez, and DSB to find hope and logic in #nohope illogic is quite awe-inspiring. I wish I could crawl out of Le Tent at this point, but I’m pretty firmly enmeshed. I’ll leave when I feel the ground rumbling, peek out, and see Shatner riding by on the lead rogue bison. Until then, I can only assume from the material evidence that any resemblance to good writing on this show is purely coincidental.
