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I really did not like the finale, and I was left scratching my head by the very premise of the S4 finale. As Lily Sparks wrote [edited for language]:

Look, I might be crazy, but I think this concept of authorship is kind of a crock of crap? The show posits that what we understand to be fiction/fairy tales is actually the history of another realm. Okay fine. Then we find out that Authors wrote these fairy tales as the history of this realm, and also these Authors have magic pens that allow them to make literally anything happen with godlike omnipotence. But when Isaac uses that magic, the fiction he creates doesn’t count because none of it’s real? Because he wasn’t recording “reality?” So if Authors are recording a reality, why do they have that magic ability at all? Henry was so confused he broke his magic quill so he would not have that kind of power over his parents, and lie about their realities, even though they are all apparently fictional characters. I think? Guys. Help. x

The entire premise of the AU makes no sense when you stop and actually think about it for any significant amount of time.

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Thank God! Lily Sparks’ review is up!

From the article:

I was discussing TV with TV.com writer Ryan Sandoval, and he was arguing that what made great TV great was its ability to show and not tell, because leaving a space for interpretation invites the audience to participate, to do more than watch, by solving a story. OUAT does a lot of telling. It does so much telling, in fact, I think a lot of us dismiss what it’s saying, because it seems so overly obvious that we have to believe there is a deeper meaning. We want to solve what we’re seeing, because what we’re being told seems so shallow. We’re being told Robin is Regina’s true love and Emma is hiding her love for Hook. But what we’re seeing, by the end of the episode, is Regina sacrificing herself for Henry, and Emma sacrificing herself for Regina.

THIS!

And might I add that I’m more than pleased the ratings for the finale didn’t go up. They stayed pretty much the same at 1.7.

"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

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This show has literally driven me to drink. #fangirlproblems

You, me, and Emma Swan. In the last few episodes, she’s repeatedly reached for the rum. Dating a one-handed pirate with a drinking problem has turned Emma into someone who reaches for a pint to solve her problems, not unlike the show’s effect on me. Could it be she’s trying to drown out that little voice inside her which says falling for the scalawag might not be such a good idea?

"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

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Happy Day after! How we doing?

This is how I feel about last night’s show:

"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

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As for the rest of 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

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From Tumblr: Ok so Hook was intentionally written completely ooc in the alternate world Isaac created. And ooc Hook was this kinda sweet, good guy, who (sort of) selflessly sacrificed himself. In other words, what they’re saying is that Hook is actually kind of the opposite of that guy.

"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

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Neal’s death was created by the ink and pen, however. It had nothing to do with something being written in the book. And to our knowledge, Neal’s death was never recorded in the book, thus while Isaac’s statement is intriguing it has little to nothing to do with Neal.

Unless the events of the missing year in the EF are recorded somewhere, somehow, in some book. Plus, there’s always Nyx. Who knows? I may be way off, but still, one can dream.

"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

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I love that you get me Slurpeez and see where I’m coming from with this. 🙂 Great post BTW. 🙂

Thanks! Loved reading your post, too.

Honestly, I personally wouldn’t want MRJ back for an extended time on this show. In my head, they could wait until the very final episode, and have MRJ film one scene and one scene alone. Have Nyx resurrect him as a reward for Henry and he and Henry go off happily. That’s all I would ask for and all I would need. Would I want it to be well written? Yeah. Would I care if it wasn’t? Nope.

That’s what I would want, too. Just let Henry have his dad. One guest appearance by MRJ would be more than enough to accomplish that task at the very end of it all.

"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

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The biggest snag of any Neal returning theories is MRJ’s lack of availability.

This is true. But sometimes even actors who’re on other shows become available for guest appearances (e.g. Christopher Gorham appearing in multiple episodes of S3b when he was on the show Covert Affairs). It just depends on whether the actor in question MRJ would even want to come back if A&E asked him back. They’ve said on the record they would love to work with him again, but whether he’d want to work with them again is the real question in my mind. We don’t know what the true circumstances surrounding MRJ’s departure from the show were. We can hypothesize that the writers decided to go in a different direction, and so MRJ left. Or maybe MRJ asked to leave like Meghan Ory did when her character, Ruby, didn’t get the kind of screen time or attention she’d been led to believe she’d get.

"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

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Isaac saying “This quill and Ink CAN only change a past it has created.” is more than just an impression. It’s a confirmation that ANYTHING, even death, can be changed by the quill & ink that originally created it. Why? Because Isaac said it CAN. Written word now trumps any rules of magic IT has created.

I see your strong reasoning here. The pen that Isaac is currently using to write his book, Heroes and Villains, can only change the things Isaac has written with it. If Isaac wanted to, he could use his pen to write brand new characters into existence or write them out again, because they would’ve been created with this particular pen. We don’t know who wrote Rumple and Baelfire’s story, or which quill and ink were used, but we can conclude it probably wasn’t Isaac, since he didn’t become the author until fairly late in the game, probably around the time that Snow and Charming had defeated the Evil Queen. So, if the original quill and ink used to write down Rumple and Baelfire’s story could be found, then presumably an author could potentially rewrite that particular history. My bet is on Henry taking up the mighty quill as the next author. Henry could potentially be motivated to try and write his dad back into original story using the original pen.

Side question: Who, if anyone, was recording the events of the missing year in the Enchanted Forest? Were those stories even recorded? If so, then maybe there is some other book of stories out there of what happened in the EF during the missing year,  which is when Neal traded his life for his father’s. If there were a book, then maybe that author could be convinced to alter the events. Or maybe Henry, who I think is the next author, could find whichever quill was used to write that story and then change 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

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