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All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixI too have a huge soft spot for Rumple which is why if Bae is alive then I would want the happy reunion to happen. However, I just think that’s a little predictable. Bae may absolutely hate Rumple’s guts when they first find each other (I may even actually find myself not liking Bae because of how he treats Rumple after everything Rumple went through for him) but before the series ends they will reunite. So long as Bae’s alive, Rumple will always cling to the thought of a happy reunion.
With Bae dead, Rumple has no hope of reuniting with his son because magic can’t bring the dead back (unless the magic Rumple brought to Storybrooke has different rules to the magic in fairytale land.) Just an idea that combines the notions of Bae being alive and Bae being dead. What if the magic brings back dead loved ones (not likes zombies but actual back to life) but it brings them back wrong. So the good, brave Bae that Rumple knew in fairytale land would actually come back as a nasty manipulative little so and so out to wreck his father’s life. Rumple would then have the dilemma of does he let Bae go and remember him as he was in fairytale land or does he keep this new twisted version of Bae around even if the fairytale land Bae wouldn’t have approved.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixI’m interested to see how Snow and Charming handle being parents to Emma. They’re the same age as her so they haven’t really got any authority over her yet obviously they’re going to want to protect her from the world.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixIf Bae’s alive then him and Rumple are going to reunite at some point. It may take a long time but it will eventually happen and that sort of takes the will they won’t they/ what’s going to happen next aspect out of it.
If Bae is dead then you get Rumple realising that his power has truly cost him dearly which plays into his catchphrase “All magic comes with a price”. He may have a second chance with Belle but he won’t get a second chance with his son. Like you said, Rumple has spent centuries working, planning and scheming all with the goal of finding and reuniting with Bae. If that goal is suddenly unachievable, what’s Rumple going to do? He gone down a dark path and burnt too many bridges to go back to being a good man yet he’s got nothing to scheme or aim for, he’ll sort of be in limbo, can’t move forward, can’t move back. Skin Deep highlighted the fact that Rumple was lonely yet he probably coped with it with the thought that he was doing it for Bae, that it would all be worth it in the end when he finds Bae. With Bae out of the picture, Rumple is out in the cold from any sort of social circle. With the exception of Belle, Rumple has no friends and no family and Belle can’t be with him 24/7 so it would be interesting to see how Rumple copes with that isolation when he has no the ends justify the means motivation. Also like you said, finding out Bae’s dead could send Rumple off the deep end. He’d be hurting, and what does Rumple do when he’s hurting? He lashes out. He described Belle as “a brief flicker of light amidst an ocean of darkness” so when Rumple is drowning in his world of darkness and despair, who else could save him and bring him back from the edge but Belle, his flicker of light. Also Bae being dead would give the show a chance to tackle some more mature themes, some real world issues where not everything ends with a happily ever after.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixThey’ve already kind of played out the happy reunion angle when August was pretending to be Bae so if they reunite Rumple and Bae, it’s not going to be a happy one.
I think Bae may be dead. In my opinion, he’s served his purpose. Whilst it would be nice to find out what happened to him when he went through the vortex, what more could he add to the story? I’m not sure if I want him to be Henry’s father or not because it would just seem too much of a coincidence that out of all the men in the world, Emma just happened to hook up with Rumple’s son.
Saying that, I’m not against Bae returning or being Henry’s father. I just think he could serve the story better if Bae was dead.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixRunning with the theory that Charming’s name is Arthur and is potentially King Arthur with the round table, would that then make Charming’s sword Excaliber. They seemed to highlight the sword in a Land without Magic when Mr Gold is giving it to Emma.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixThat does make sense. Theoretically Belle is going to be very dependent on Rumple for at least the first couple of days until she gets better aquainted with the real world. How Rumple reacts to things is going to influence how Belle reacts to things. Rumple isn’t the most social of people so I could see him and Belle isolating themselves from the rest of the town.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixPerhaps the title We Are Both will come from a line said within the episode. Like in The Thing You Love Most, Rumple told Regina that the heart she had to sacrifice had to come from “the thing you love most”.
Perhaps Emma would be having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that Charming and Snow are her friends and her parents and would be like “Are you my friends or are you my parents?” and they would reply with “We are both!”
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixI wouldn’t mind Daniel in the present so much if he was like a ghost haunting Regina or in a dream sequence but I wouldn’t want him brought back to life. His death is what motivates Regina against Snow, him being alive would make Regina unnecessary. Regina’s redemption should come with her letting go of the past and moving on with her life.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of Felix
