I know some people don’t like spoilers and I’ve no idea how the people that follow me feel about them. So I’m not going to reblog anything spoiler related. That being said I feel like commenting on something I keep reading so I’m going to just put that under the cut.
Warning, this will contain talk of spoilers for Once Upon a Time season 6.
In light of the recent spoiler picture I’m going to reblog this. Got a few things to add as well. Spoilers under the cut.
I said in the first bit that I didn’t really like to speculate when there was so little to go on. I know there have been spoilers about Rumple and Belle arguing and it all looks like it might be sad. I’m not worried at all for a couple of reasons a) I still have no idea how it’s actually going to play out and context is everything. b) I can headcanon anything to make sense. c) one episode isn’t the end, until the credits roll on the finale anything can happen.
Honestly I look on all the amazing Rumbelle moments and I think about all the awesome storylines they have. Did they suck in terms of Rumbelle being happy together? Yup. But stuff happened, memorable stuff even if it was painful. I love every storyline they’ve had, even if I do occasionally wish the angst fairy would go and bother another couple for a while.
Anyway, back to my theory about time jump. This is just me, talking out of my arse, and I could be completely wrong. Since I came up with the theory more spoilers have been released with maybe more evidence, and not just today’s picture of Zelena with not so baby Robyn.
– floof and no floof filming e.g. directly after season 5 and then … time skip. The time skip would allow them to write in a big change like that. I know on stargate sg1, Amanda Tapping wanted to grow her hair and they woudn’t let her because each season picked up off a cliffhanger. Eventually she managed it because there was a time jump.
– now they could just be filming out of order, or they could be filming flashbacks and present day. Thus explaining Belle being in her season 5 clothes, and then being in other clothes.
– Belle looks very not pregnant in her other clothes, maybe (and this will not be popular) because she’s already had the baby.
So yeah I’m still thinking that there is going to be one hell of a time jump at the end of the first episode. Then for at least the next half season we’ll flashback to the “missing year” and then we’ll move forward again.
I know Adam just confirmed that there was “no time jump” but I flat out don’t trust him. I remember reading an interview where he flat out said that Rumple wouldn’t have magic again. Then … hello dark one, thus fulfilling my theory that Rumple would become the dark one again. I knew he would because if he wasn’t, then the status quo on the show would change and they can’t have that.
So no matter what Adam says, this is going to be my theory until it gets disproved by a more reputable source. Is that mean? Probably but he doesn’t exactly have a great track record.