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Have A&E said anything yet?
I’ll be taking a break from the show until Neal is resurrected. It’s the spring/Easter season so I still have hope. It will just be from a distance.
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Playlist options:
Goodbye Girl, (Hootie & the Blowfish version)
Home, Michael Buble (too direct?)Could coming up with playlist options be a fun game while we wait until Sunday?
I loved that the moment Neal knew that Henry was Emma’s, Neal wanted Henry. No hesitation, just “tell me the boy is mine.” I want more family scenes with the three of them. There is much comedy to mine there.
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For a playlist: Tom Petty, Square One
Re: Neal and Henry, I have the impression that as soon as Emma stated that Henry was her son, Neal wanted to be the father. He was looking for the answer to be “Yes” to the question, “Is this my son?”
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Neal will live. That will be a major plot twist for some. We’ll stand by ready to celebrate.
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Lovely picture!
If the people who are quick to write off Neal have to stop and consider that he might just live, it means that the chances increase for a negative end for their preferred character. I empathize with the desire of some to just assume that Neal dies in 3.15 as such an outcome would spare their preferred character and get us past the Spoiler of Doom. Those people are not accurate, but I’m not going to tell them.
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@Lizzie
I love the coconut cake!I will enjoy this season much more after in rewatching after the end of the season.
Happy, positive, optimistic thoughts this week.
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Happy Birthday, Neal! And many, many more.
Neal = hope and he will live because hope will live. Doesn’t the story always have to seem hopeless before it gets light? Henry died. David was dying. They’re still with us.
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Henry’s new sense of having been indirectly abandoned by Neal puts Neal in the position to having been abandoned by his father and abandoning his son. He’s in a position to have a greater understanding of his father while understanding his son. There’s a lot of rich material for MRJ and RC to dig into once the family is all back in the same general location. And it’s going to take a long time to untangle this knot.
Was Neal’s presumed birthday around this time (March)?
Happy Spring! Neal lives!
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If Neal dies, that means that A&E will have sacrificed an original character. A character that they can do anything they want to, within the constraints of the 8 p.m. family hour, without checking with the character’s owners to make sure that a story arc or characterization is okay. That is huge. A&E would be doing that in order to keep Hook, the 3rd of 3 recoving villians who has limited ties to the Family. In fact, Adam just re-friendzoned Hook with Emma (tweet about never having called him a love interest of Emma’s) which weakens his ties to Emma. Okay, there was a lot of Hook in the article, but there is a lot of Hook in ALL of the articles. This is nothing new. This is actually one of the reasons that I think the death is Hook. I would not be surprised to find out that A&E’s love of Hook has waned in the instance upon outside people to force Hook into a main character position when his role was intended to compliment the main characters. That the death is a story line “demand” is a passive aggressive way for A&E to say that they are ready for the character in question to be dead. They control the story lines. The death seems to be to be a way to avoid the, “When is he coming back?” questions and allow for the show to move on.
On fan bases, to suggest that Hook will be saved due to fan demand is to hold the Hook fan base above all other character fan bases. I just don’t see Hook’s fan base having more influence over A&E than Regina’s fan base or Rumple’s. A couple of days ago I facetiously asked who has to tell Regina’s fans that Regina won’t be allowed to enjoy her upcoming romance because she has to help Henry mourn his father. Can you picture the fury? I would not want to be either Adam or Eddy. Also, Hooks fans have not been able to bring in the ratings, and that means they don’t have the power to break the show if they don’t get their way. ABC is in this for money, not any kind of love of Hook. I suspect that sometime within the next few weeks, the ABC marketing team in charge of pushing Hook for OUAT will have to explain the lack of return on investment in that decision. Advertisers are likely not happy with the show as they were likely promised higher ratings. The face if OUAT’s middling ratings is Hook, not Neal.
If anyone really wants me to believe that Neal dies, that person will need to show me MRJ’s contract with another show, plus official promotional pictures.
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