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If you need another reason to be sure Neal isn’t dead – Would they make Rumple and Bae’s last time seeing each other THAT? No way.
[adrotate group="5"]@MysteryKat25 wrote:
@Shack1212 wrote:
Not sure if Neverland only wants boys. The shadow took Wendy in the first place after all. The only explanation for that if they were really targeting boys, is if it was planned ahead of time that Wendy would want to go back and this would lead to Bae’s sacrifice.
The shadow wanting a boy is key in some way however.
I agree – it had no problem taking Wendy the first time and she was gone for at least long enough for Bae to worry he’d never see her again. I wonder what actually happened while she was there.
Typically the Lost Boys WANT Wendy to stay with them, so it’s weird that they wanted a boy and I think it may have been a setup to get Bae somehow. If the shadow pan got information out of Wendy and/or observed that Bae was the one that didn’t want her to go with it etc etc maybe it knew that Bae would be the one to go and not John or Michael so they swapped Wendy for him.
It’s all a very strange twist and I’m curious to see how it plays out.
Right now I want to believe Wendy but who knows, maybe she did what she did to protect her brothers and wasn’t as genuine with Bae / was manipulating him into sacrificing himself. I don’t WANT to believe that, but given the poor kid’s track record with anybody he cares about….
Hard to trust any character at just their word on this show, even if you want to believe what they’re saying. Harder still when they’re new, but I would like to think that Wendy is sincere. If she did play him it was to save her brothers but I still wouldn’t be too happy.
I’m still bothered by the fact it didn’t want to keep her though. Traditionally the Lost Boys want a mother, someone to sing for them and tell them stories and sew their clothes. They’re happy to have a female presence and look up to her. Seems odd if they’re all crying for their mothers that the shadow pan doesn’t try to appease them by keeping a girl there to take care of them.
I’m more and more convinced that the shadow is trying to force its hand-selected “friends” to not abandon him, which leads back to the might be a darker part of Bae theory since he has major abandonment issues (though I don’t see him leaving Wendy so easily except for a good cause – although if it was shadow Bae and it wanted its body back or something weird like that then maybe I guess, but I would think it would just try to convince Bae to come along and save/join Wendy, not leave her so who knows.)
Nice post and thoughts Mysterykat
I really really like the idea of Wendy manipulating Bae into sacrificing himself and going to Neverland. Aside from the shiftiness about the wanting a boy plot and the shadow just letting her go, other clues
– Wendy left as a girl obsessed with magic and hated parents and adults. Does that fit the profile who wants to go back to Earth? Or one who loves and embraces Neverland, to the point of becoming the accomplice of whoever’s in charge of Neverland (wouldn’t be the shadow if Wendy is BSing), or if forced to choose between leaving Neverland or sacrificing Bae, picking the latter? Almost everyone who becomes magical in Once, becomes caught up in its power and head down a path of wrong decisions to keep it. That being Wendy’s story, fits the show’s profile more than willingly walking away from magic.
– Wendy is about to sacrifice one of her brothers for her mistake? Dick move, no? When I saw the episode I thought this was Wendy’s cowardice and selfishness, similar to Rumplestiltskin letting go of Bae or Bae freaking out and backing out of his Neverland sacrifice and put the Darlings in danger, as soon as he saw/heard it. This may be true, but it also makes sense if her plan the whole time was to trap Baelfire
Of course, it’s also possible the Wendy Bae saw when she came back to Earth, was a shape shifting imposter, though this pre-dates Cora by a few centuries if I’m not mistaken.
I could be overthinking it, but I think it’d be really cool if Wendy was something resembling a big bad of S3 if they are indeed in Neverland. I think adult Wendy will be a part of the present day storyline one way or another, the question is whether they’ll have her hit up Neverland in search of Bae/a brother the shadow took, or whether when she came back to Earth she intended to return to Neverland
Not sure if Neverland only wants boys. The shadow took Wendy in the first place after all. The only explanation for that if they were really targeting boys, is if it was planned ahead of time that Wendy would want to go back and this would lead to Bae’s sacrifice.
The shadow wanting a boy is key in some way however.
Sonequa’s not lasting to next season unless it’s in a few guest episodes that actors with full time gigs elsewhere can do, so I’d bet on her dieing
There is no chance he’s dead. You don’t kill characters off-screen on TV. If they wanted to really kill Neal, there’s no portal. They make Tamara shoot him, run away and then have him die in Emma’s arms.
The only possibility I see for this bullet killing Neal: If Emma goes through the portal in the season finale, goes to wherever Neal is, THEN he has the emotional death scene in her arms.
But I see it as straight forward. Neal lives and Swanfire together is the endgame. Season ends with a “Neal is alive!” scene where-ever he is. And the cliffhanger is he’s with Ariel or Lancelot or something
