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She will have ALL that pain and emotion rush back, conflicting realities in her head and it is hard to say if the writers are just going to ignore the opportunity for her to truly address the fact that Neal only left her because of what he felt was his duty, just as she only left everyone pre-2nd-curse as her duty, because Henry would be left alone if she didn’t. She would choose Henry, absolutely every time, but it is not that she wanted to make that choice anymore than Neal or anyone else wanted to leave her.
Oh I hope they do address that. Curse related situations involving family being together, forcing each of them to make an impossible, heartbreaking choice, when they really don’t have a choice at all. Even if they do drop that point on the show, at least we know that it’s yet another thing they’ll have in common, which will deepen their understanding of each other. Actually, that’s probably part of the reason why he was able to keep calm during the goodbye, because he’s been in her shoes, and knows how hard it is for her to do what she knows she has to, and didn’t wanna make it any harder for her, so instead he stayed as strong as he could for her.
When magic comes in, these painful things are going to happen, and Neal crossed worlds to be with Emma. I have no idea why he is not the one to go find her in NY but the writers better have a GOOD explanation why. He jumped on a shadow, at the slight risk to a small child (and I feel any danger from Shadow-gate is now sort of too remote since the shadow is dead). He was DESPERATE to see them, and I cannot imagine, even with the sadness that maybe Emma does not want him as a romantic partner that he would not still feel intensely motivated to see his son. That makes zero sense for his character.
Well, consider how she reacted to him in Manhattan. She was pissed and ranting at him because of what she believed he’d done to her. Those memories of what he did are still in her head, even with the altered memories, so it’s reasonable to assume that if Neal was the one who’d showed up at her door, she’d have been pissed, and ranted, and with Henry right there, if she once again hasn’t told him the truth about who his father was, then that’s gonna make her even more pissed if he’s standing in her doorway.
Basically, it’s pretty good odds that Neal wouldn’t be able to get through to her. I’m sure he’d have loved to be the one who went, because he’d be desperate to see her and Henry again, (those spoiler pics showed him seeming upset over something, and this may well be it) but if the aim is to get her to listen, he’s not the best bet.
And if she doesn’t listen to whoever gets sent, then Emma never believes again, and she’ll never make it back to her family. It’s history repeating, Neal doing something that hurt him personally, (in the first instance leaving her, and in the second instance not going to her and sending someone else, Hook no less, in his place), to ensure that the end result will be that she can get back to her family.
If the writers want to develop CS,
I’m really not convinced that that’s their plan. Since the NL kiss we’ve seen her play it down as “just a kiss” to both Snow and Hook himself, we’ve seen her not show any interest in kissing him again, meanwhile she’s repeatedly talked about still being in love with Neal, we didn’t get any indication that she sought Hook out right after they got baack to SB, but she did eventually decide to go meet Neal for lunch, we saw her make a conscious effort to say goodbye to Neal, but didn’t approach Hook at all, she responded with the bland reaction of “good” when Hook said he’d think about her every day, and when he attempted to kiss her again, there was no TL magic, and she kneed him in the nuts, and he actually admitted defeat.
To me, it seems like they’ve been consistently writing CS as being very one sided, while exploring the fact that Emma does have deep (if conflicted) emotions (including love) for Neal. That means that it would be a complete and random 180 if Emma now decided to be in a relationship with Hook, and I like to think that they wouldn’t write something so unbelievable and out of character for their heroine, considering the opposite storyline they have actually put effort into constructing.
It absolutely annoys me that Hook has been reduced to fawning over and pining for Emma, because there are far more interesting things they could have him be doing. But at the same time, he’s got an obsessive nature, so I may be bugged by how he’s latched onto Emma, but latching onto a new whatever, (Milah, piracy, revenge, Emma), and devoting himself entirely to it is in character for him, so I’m not really surprised that he’s neck deep in the Emma thing, and was still hoping for a TLK a mere year later. Dude clung to his love for Milah and the revenge for a couple centuries, so 12 months is nothin’.
As long as the resolution of his Emma fixation is him finally realising, “Maybe being so obsessive isn’t exactly good form, and I’d be happier and maybe find an actual fulfilling relationship if I took a step back and adjusted my attitude,” then I’ll be able to look back and say that at least the decline in his storyline served a purpose. Of course, I don’t know if that IS what they’re planning for his story, but I’m holding onto that hope for a bit longer.
[adrotate group="5"]Just a random thought, but if WWW is the Black Fairy, then perhaps using her wand is what summons her now (as opposed to why she’s never shown up before)
Excellent idea! Would make a lot of sense and would be an organic way for them to start integrating her into the story.
It was SO SAD when she was standing there frozen, unable to speak, though she could hear every word and knew he was saying goodbye to her!!
He’ll still be alive somewhere though. She will see him again! I do believe in Rumbelle, I do, I do!
Is the blade really long enough to have done that, though? I guess if it’s the official explanation, then that’s that, but I’ve gotta fanwank a bit to be able to accept it. Now I feel the need to go analyse screencaps of the dagger being held, to try and gauge the length of the blade. LOL
Thank, sorry didnt saw it, but what you think, about where she is? like i said in the pic looks like a car passing, so cannot be neal`s apartment.so where is the dreamcatcher?
Or you think that is emma arm refletion, if it is has strange angle, becuase has a very strong reflexion.
It’s probably just her arm lifting up to unhook the dreamcatcher. She’s wearing a red coat in this ep, and the moving blurry bit is red.
Could Neal be a candidate for GurneyGuy? He knows both Robin and Hook, so maybe all three of them were working together to do something and there was an accident?
Secondly, I dont understand why they would undo the curse to take them back to the Enchanted Forest only to immediately be put under a curse again to go back to Storybrooke. It seems kinda pointless to me to destroy SB only to have it recreated again so suddenly. I like the idea of them going back to SB to be in our world again, because I hate everyone being separated. But this will now be the third time the curse is cast and I just would like a different way of getting SB back.
It would be kinda of flip floppy. They (including Emma) definitely seem to be back there though, and Belle’s asking about being cursed. Maybe WWW has a way to undo others’ magic? So if she’s a rival of Regina’s, maybe instead of casting a brand new Curse, she sorta undoes the Curse reversal, because she knows it would piss Regina off, because it would mean she’d given up Henry for nothing?
What do you think?
Yes, that’s already been discussed, and it’s definitely a new scene from 312. The lighting, her position, and her clothing are all different.
ETA, SNAP slurpeez, we musta both hit submit at the same moment. LOL
His papa created a curse, which ultimately resulted in Neal meeting Emma, the love of his life, and giving him the gift of fatherhood. For as long as he lives, he’ll know he got something right. It’s true magic destroyed his family, but it’s also true that magic helped bring him and Emma together to create Henry. Now all he needs to do is believe in the truth of his father’s words that happiness is possible, even for him, to believe in his second chance.
YES! A frillion times YES! Rumple thought the Curse would allow his son to have his family, and he was right, just not in the way he’d imagined. Ah, prophecy and fate can be so tricksy, can’t they. I’d call this poetic. And we know that Kitswitz like writing poetic. I’m just sayin.
Would love for them to bring Morgan le Fey into the story at some point. Have been hoping for that for a while.
Unfortunately not the clearest screencap of the black wand, but it was the best I could get. Anyway, those things must be connected somehow, yes? We’ve seen other wands that have a very different design, but these three are SO matchy, so I have to think it’s not random.
