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Just when I thought I was emotionally over this show! *Throws fish!*
Well. But given that A and E have already said that the dreamcatcher in 505 has nothing do with Neal…don’t hold out hope for any sort of satisfying SF feels
Well, of course they’re going to say that. 99% of the crap they say has no validity. What else are they going to say to CS-hungry fans? Doesn’t make it true.
[adrotate group="5"]"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
YEAH SURE. GO AHEAD. KEEP TELLING ME NEAL DIED FOR LOGICAL REASONS.
They killed a man for a ship! They even said so in a meta sorta way.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
First we have Emma compulsively making dreamcathers in 5×4. A&E can talk until they’re blue in the face about it not being associated with Neal. Moreover, I think they’re just saying that to appease CS fans. She’s obviously using the “flypaper for nightmares” motif and it’s heavily symbolic of her dream of Tallahassee and Neal which never came true. But, more than that there’s the promo in 5×4.
Emma is crying while holding a dreamcatcher overlaid with a soundclip of Rumple saying, “You always lose the ones you love most.”
Just when I thought I was emotionally over this show! *Throws fish!*
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Emma’s crying over a dreamcatcher. But sure, go ahead and tell us that the dreamcatcher has nothing to do with Neal.
Yeah…not buying it.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
why is Emma making dreamcatchers?? Is it a distraction? Is it for a reason?
It’s all of the above. It’s a hobby, a way to kill the time, and also hugely symbolic. The dreamcatcher is what Baelfire used to block the nightmares of Rumple abandoning him after his dad became the dark one. Emma is using the “flypaper for nightmares” to block out the nightmare she’s currently living.
Emma: It’s a Native American dreamcatcher. It’s supposed to keep the nightmares out and only let the good dreams in to protect your home. – Tallahassee
More than that, however, I think the dreamcatcher is about the dreams she’s had and lost.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
The one in which Emma Swan dies.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
A and E call killing Neal bold storytelling
Actually those were MRJ’s words that he gave in the exit interview via Twitter. I think he meant “bold” in an ironic sort of way.
https://twitter.com/mraymondjames/status/450718900821303296
https://twitter.com/MRaymondJames/status/450719007759278080
Would MRJ and Bobby Carlyle have liked it to have been otherwise? Of course. Killing off Neal in favor of Hook was only “bold” in the sense that it was an audacious decision to kill off the very reason for the entire narrative. Rumple losing and finding Bae again was at the very heart of the show; killing off the heart of the narrative shows an impudent lack of respect for the writers’ own original narrative. It’s comparable to Zelena’s decision to cut off her own hand; only the writers don’t have the magical talent to simply put the story back together.
It’s especially painful this season because you tell that it was supposed to be Neal doing a lot of what Hook is doing (though with more grace and love). It would have made for really beautiful, logical, and circular storytelling.
I don’t think Neal fans are only grousing over the fact that A&E killed off the character at the heart of OUAT. It’s that what came to replace it makes Baywatch look like Tolstoy.
LOL! It’s really not even about shipping; it’s about the loss of a core character for gratuitous reasons. Just look at last week’s choice to wake up Hero!Rumple with Hook’s cutlass (which wasn’t even the same sword he used in 2×4) versus how poetic it could’ve been to have used Bae’s shawl. The choice of using Bae’s baby blanket to usher forward his father’s lost humanity would have been deeply symbolic since Bae was that little light that kept his father human.
and i praise this fans, that are doing this, i mean they dont gain anything with this, they in fact lose free time, yet they still do it, and better than professional writers that win millions per year to write a show that can be compared to the worst type of fan fiction.
Yes! Kudos to this amazing writer for writing the AU.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
