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"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
Will Emma, Snow, and Charming deal with their issues as a family this season?
KITSIS: Absolutely.
HOROWITZ: Oh yeah. There’s some Charming—
KITSIS: They will be tested like never before.FINALLY!
Will Hook find a job this season?
KITSIS: We’ve talked about that!
HOROWITZ: What exactly is Hook qualified for? That is the question that is an untold story.Fisherman
Is baby Neal going to get some screen time this season?
KITSIS: Probably not.
HOROWITZ: Not a lot. He’s a baby.
KITSIS: He’s like the baby in Party of Five. What do people want to see from Neal?If he has magic.
KITSIS: Ahh. Well then, maybe.
HOROWITZ: Perhaps.That would be a no.
"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
If Regina is the person Emma chooses, I’m also not convinced it’s in a romantic way. She does keep choosing Regina (she saves Regina, she protects Regina, she defends Regina) but she also keeps lip locking and declaring love for the pirate.
I’m also not convinced it would be in a romantic way nor that it even would need to be (given Emma is Regina’s step-grandchild). Those ladies choosing each other and their son in a loving, familial way would still be a powerful statement in a way that is satisfying to the GA and (mostly) to SQ fans. Since I doubt Neal would ever come back from the dead, then this is the ending that would be the most fitting and natural resolution to the problems they’ve set up since his death. It would also wrap up a story that spans the series and give Emma and Regina the family they’ve always been looking for with their son and each other.
"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 only reason that Swan Queen is possible is because any random thing can happen on this show at any time.
Anything really could happen now that the reset button has been hit, and that is sort of my point. Neal was always planned to be Henry’s father and Emma’s true love since the start. He was the one meant for Emma. However, when the writers hit the reset button and killed off Neal in S3b, the story got a major overhaul. It seems like Emma and Hook are going to be headed down the aisle at the end of s6 (what with the wedding dress in the display case in S5 finale), but you never know with these writers. They’re tricky you-know-whats. If they don’t get picked up by ABC for another season, they could do whatever they want.
"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
I’m sure that spot will go to our newest bad boy in town, Sam Witwer (Mr. Hyde). Adam and Eddy can’t resist having another tall, dark, & handsome with past issues and abusive ways on this show.
So long as the writers don’t pair Hyde and Regina romantically together, I don’t mind. I wouldn’t even mind if the Hyde and the Evil Queen personas had a fling, but leave Regina alone. She already lost Robin and Daniel. No more of that for her, please.
3) There’s a lot of truth in what Slurpeez has been saying—CS just grows in its toxicity and how outrageously bad it is. I just can’t see them abandoning it because it comes down to whether or not the writers recognize the toxicity of their ship. They may actually understand that it’s a truly horrifying romantic pairing (but then again, the white heterosexual male privilege is such that they can’t conceive of writing anything that isn’t “right”) and are only giving ABC what they want but in a way that makes the network mandated ship as ugly as possible. BUT….it doesn’t mean they are going to turn tail and run from it all of a sudden. Ah, to be a fly on the wall.
But we still have Jane Espenson in the writers’ room offering a non-traditional POV. I also go back to what Adam tweeted once in S3 about some people being right for you, some people being wrong for you, and other people you just choose. At the time, it seemed like he was talking about Emma choosing to go with Henry over Hook or Neal at the end of S3a, but now I’m wondering if there’s more to it.
Neal was Emma’s past and the one who was right for her.
Hook is her present but is totally wrong for her.
Regina is Emma’s future and the one she’ll choose.
If that is how the writers have been setting it up this way since S3a, then suddenly everything makes sense. Otherwise, nothing makes sense with any of the writers’ decisions since S3b.
"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
4) Since I know DSB and Macy won’t pop around to give a theory, I’ll do it for them (and I think Slurpeez knows this one. I think she and DSB talked about it once before): when Hook restored Emma’s memories in 3B (312) the potion was laced with the Sands of Avalon, the same roofie Arthur gave Gwen, which explain Emma’s behavior S3B-present, especially when it comes to Hook.
THAT is an untold story I would very much like to see! Yes, I’ve long thought it could be a real possibility, ever since S3b when DSB proposed the memory potion was laced. After S5a aired, I added the bit about Hook adding the Sands of Avalon to it. He must’ve acquired it when he was sailing all over fairy-tale land during the missing year. 🙂
"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
I think that’s what did it. Michael Socha was made a regular then got to do bugger all but wasn’t allowed to find other work. Thing is though, what story is there left to tell with Merida? There’s some characters where you think “oh they could do this or they could do that” but I’m drawing a blank with Merida. She served her purpose.
Maybe Merida and Mulan could have become a couple.
"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
Seeing the show runners’ track record, if SQ becomes canon I do hope it’s at the very end, so that they can ride off into the sunset before OUAT turns it into another shambling relationship zombie (erhm… ghost ship?)
100% agreed.
Here this article, read it is very telling about Bobby feelings for OUAT:
Good for Bobby for telling it like it is and good for Amy Madison turning down the role. I wouldn’t be surprised if she also looked at how Michael Socha was mistreated by A&E in S4 and decided to do other things with her time. Great!
"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
Absolutely. I think the subtext is definitely there — there’s a lot about SQ that seems to follow the genre conventions of early 1990s films that had at their heart a really close, somewhat ambiguous bond between two women. So something like Thelma and Louise and Fried Green Tomatoes really come to mind. I think the difference is that both of those films were really explicit commentaries about patriarchy, violence against women (domestic or otherwise), and gender/social norms. So insofar as that genre of portrayal of a close female bond is SQ’s aesthetic predecessor, SQ is in some ways more regressive. Primarily because OUAT seems to normalize the emotional and physical violence that FGT and T&L were explicitly critiquing (for example, by “promoting” CS, both on-screen and off screen).
I get what you’re saying, but I do wonder still. Certainly, the actors are told to promote the heck out of the CS romance, and it also does seem to normalize violence towards women when the writers don’t comment on Hook’s agressive, seedy behavior. But they also never really explained why Hook’s cursed lips robbed Emma of the very thing that made her so special. They also didn’t comment on why dark-one Emma’s hand turned golden when she tried kissing Hook to break her curse. Why didn’t her curse break when she kissed him if they have true love? If you let the script speak for itself, it’s because Emma and Hook really don’t share true love. Why don’t the writers or actors ever say anything about all of Emma’s failed TLKs with Hook? Could it also be because A&E are misdirecting everyone so that SQ seems more like a surprise? A SQ fan wrote it better than I could. I’m not saying I’m fully on board in thinking that it’ll happen, but I certainly wouldn’t mind if it did either. I think I’d cheer for it. Also, when I think about the overwhelming amount of subtext, it really doesn’t just seem like subtext to me anymore; it seems more like foreshadowing.
"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
Maybe all magic really does have a price and Emma is magic incarnate.
It does. She lost her first love Neal because he had to let her go to fulfill her destiny, and when he re-entered her life, he ended up laying his own life down for her and Henry. Emma said as far back as season 3 that she is constantly having to pay the price of being the savior and is struggling to get her version of happily ever after. In 3×10 The New Neverland, Emma expressed that she could never just have a day off from being the savior.
Emma: You’re great parents, but you’re wrong. I’m the… savior. I don’t have the luxury of having moments. It’s just not my life. Every time I think I’m going to sit back and enjoy myself, I can’t because it’s never going to stop.
Snow: I used to think the same way.
Emma: It’s different. My magic has a price. The price of being the savior is… I don’t get a day off.Then in 3×12 New York City Serenade, Emma expressed how much she was enjoying just living a quiet, normal life with Henry in NYC — far away from all the madness and responsibility of having to be the savior:
Hook: Alas, you’re the savior, not me.
Emma: You know what I was yesterday? A mother. Till you showed up and started pocking holes in everything I thought was real. When I drank that potion, it was like waking up from a dream. A really good dream.It seems to me like Emma’s idea of a happy ending is just getting to have a normal life with Henry. She just wants to be a mother to her son and live without fear of attack.
Hook: Swan! What the blazes was that?
Emma: A reminder that I was never safe. All that I wanted, that I thought I could have was not in the cards for the savior. We leave in the morning.Perhaps Emma will finally get to live happily ever after by the end of season 6. (Here’s to hoping they don’t drag it out another season).
"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
