Ok I have to know. Am I the only that is vehemently against Gideon getting deaged into a baby?
I have to be honest I find the entire concept quite horrifying because it basically kills him. It resets him, erasing his personality and everything he went through that made him who he is. It’s like saying there’s no consequences. Yes, what he went through was horrible but it happened and in my opinion it should be dealt with, not just magic handwaved away.
I know it sucks for everyone involved but then Emma didn’t get deaged back into a baby so she’d have a happier childhood, and Snow and Charming got to raise her. Instead they managed to find a way to make it work as they are now and I really strongly believe that Rumple, Belle and Gideon need to do the same. They can still be a family, it’ll just be unconventional, but then in Storybrooke what else is new right?
Discussion is seriously welcome here 🙂
I don’t want it to happen to THIS version of Gideon, no. What I want is somehow Rumbelle going to the Dark Realm and since times moves weirdly in that realm, they end up there while Gideon is still a baby or still a very young boy. And then once they save him from the Dark Realm and come back, the older Gideon who was being controlled by the BF, just sort of disappears. It’s like a timeline reset for him.
I do not want an August/Pinocchio bullshit situation where they de-age a grown ass adult. That’s creepy and gross.
I agree with @rowofstars. Yes to rescuing Gideon before everything happened to him, no to de-aging the adult Gideon.
Wow ok, yeah I remember this theory now because of the filming spoilers. I have to be honest though I really hate the idea.
First because while it loses some of the creepy factor of the deaging, it still basically kills the Gideon we know because it erases him from existence. Secondly (and far more importantly to me) time travel doesn’t work like that and I would scream so loudly. I have a feeling based on next weeks promo I’m going to be ranting a lot about time travel anyway.
The way I understand it. If they did manage to slip between the time stream and rescue Gideon when he was a boy, he wouldn’t just disappear from Storybrooke in that instant – he never would have been to Storybrooke in the first place. Nothing would have happened with him after he got rescued. So it’s impossible, it’s a paradox. History can’t be changed. I don’t believe in ripples through time because well paradox. History can’t be changed because people wouldn’t know they had to do anything to change it.
If history is changed, then it causes a break in the timeline and a new reality is created. So if Rumple and Belle did rescue Gideon as a child, it would change nothing in our Storybrooke. Adult Gideon would still be around, only now he would have lost his parents because Rumple and Belle would be in the new reality they created and probably unable to ever return.
If they did manage to bridge the two realities and bring kid!Gideon back with them, then there would be two Gideon’s. The one we know, and the child from the alternate reality they created. No matter what adult Gideon can’t be wiped from existence and just disappear. At least as I understand the logic of time travel. Now I could be wrong I mean time travel is fictional and it works however the creators say it works I guess. I probably shouldn’t be so judgmental and opinionated about it. It just bugs me when it doesn’t make sense. I’m sorry.