Category Archives: Stream of Thought

Do you believe in magic?

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When I was finding my Rumbelle fan theory on my blog I found this snippet, a small theory about Emma and why she has changed so much since season one.

At the end of season one, Emma was made to believe in magic and that sort of pulls the rug out from reality. Maybe she doesn’t think about the consequences of anything anymore because she’s living in a magical bubble, where anything is possible and anything can be real, and so what’s the harm?

Emma has lost her grip on reality and with it what little common sense she had. I liked her in season one – mostly, she seemed to have a bite to her that said she understood the real world. Now? Not so much.

I cheered so much when Emma said “screw it” and dropped the sword in favor of her gun when fighting the dragon at the end of season one. Finally, there was a character that didn’t ignore the easy options. Sure it failed and she had to use the sword after all, but she tried the gun first, that’s what mattered.

Now don’t get me wrong I still like Emma. I just worry about her because she does these crazy things like dragging Henry down to the underworld in a futile attempt to save her boyfriend. Admittedly everyone was at fault there, seriously did not one person think that taking a kid to the underworld was a bad plan?

Anyway, I digress, basically for Emma discovering that life is actually a fairytale and that magic is real, throws all the natural laws of the world out the window. That has to have an impact. I mean basically they’ve now even proved that death isn’t always final. What are the rules of Emma Swan’s reality? What does she have to hold onto, to know this is actually real? Come to think of it, Henry is bound to have a similar problem.

What is True Love?

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When it comes to true love on the show, that is sometimes up for debate. I have always thought true love should mean true acceptance. How can you truly love someone if you don’t love all of them? This is why I struggle to understand how people can be true love, if they haven’t known each other all that long.

True love might just be ‘soul mates’, sort of a magical connection and that is there whether the couple know one another or not. However, if this was 100% true, then true loves kiss would work when people had lost their memories. The show proved more than once, that the person with amnesia needed to start feeling love again (Snow to Charming for example when she took the potion) before the kiss would work.

However, this post isn’t really about the definition of true love. It’s about Rumplestiltskin and Belle and a theory I have about what went wrong in their relationship. How did we get from the true loves kiss in Skin Deep, to how their relationship progressed once they were reunited in Storybrooke?

In the episode ‘Our Decay’ Rumple finally stood up for himself. He told Belle that she loved all of him and I don’t think he was wrong. It wouldn’t have been true love if she hadn’t loved him as he was – and she met him as the dark one – after all the subsequent suffering she lost sight of that.

I know I said I wasn’t going to question the nature of true love. However, this does lead into my theory. I have questioned a few times how they were true love, given her intent when she kissed him was to break the curse of the dark one. I mean what did she say to Regina – “I could love him but something evil has taken root in him” – which suggests that she loved the man she thought he was under the curse, not who he actually was. I suppose it depends what she thought breaking that curse would do. Did she know it would take his power away? As I said at the top, I sometimes struggle to understand how true love can happen without true acceptance.

Anyway, they are true love and that is a fact. Therefore I choose to believe that is because Belle had true acceptance once. Perhaps at the beginning in Skin Deep it wasn’t something she consciously admitted because you aren’t supposed to love someone who is “dark”. Maybe she would have come to accept that if she had been able to return – “I’m coming back Rumple” – she declared right before Regina captured her and then she was locked up for a long time.

Rumple and Belle have been apart far more than they have ever been together. Imagine somewhere you went as a young kid, or something you did, or something you saw etc. and for years and years all you had was the memory. You then go back to that place, watch it again or go through the same experience but it’s different – it’s not what you remember.

If it’s supposed to be a good memory, over the years the mind romanticizes certain parts, plays up the good and obscures the bad. We’ll paint ourselves in better lights, we’ll give ourselves more noble reasons, we’ll ascribe more meaning or knowledge to the situation that only hindsight gave us, not something we knew at the time.

I wonder if that’s not what happened with Belle. She remembered loving Rumple but they never had a life together, not as a couple, and so she created a fantasy which didn’t match reality. She turned her memory of him, into something that he never was and I don’t think she even realizes that she did that. She keeps saying that he was different back then – but he was the dark one. He hasn’t changed.

How the warped memory affects their relationship
I’ve always thought that Belle constantly demanding he change and emotionally blackmailing him, to try and force him was wrong. She did that from the very beginning of their ‘reconciliation’ back in season two. “I thought you changed.” and Rumple says “What in the hour you’ve known me.” or words to that effect. She walked out but then she came back. She’s said a couple of times in different ways “promise me and then we can be together”.

Now I get couples need to compromise, work together, make sacrifices etc. but using love against someone, threatening to withhold it if they don’t do what you want is bad. I’m hesitant to label it abuse but it certainly isn’t nice. I know when it comes to Rumple and Belle, the haters of their relationship always think that Rumple abuses Belle, but to be honest I’ve always thought it more the other way round.

Rumple does lie to Belle but only because he’s scared of her reaction. He has this belief that if he’s not perfect she’ll leave him – and that belief is just justified because that’s what she does, all the damn time.

Well finally he stood up for himself. – “But if you want me to be a different man… I’m sorry. This is who I am.” – Why is that wrong? If the situation was reversed and he demanded she change for him then everyone would be up in arms.

Loving someone is accepting them for who they are. Belle once told Neal she loved Rumple – “all of him, even the parts that belong to the darkness” – but those are just words. In actions, certainly in all their recent interactions, there has been no acceptance of the darkness.

I’ve never quite got why Belle kept saying he had to choose. Having power doesn’t mean he loves her any less. I think maybe she got scared about what that power could lead too. Given Regina, the curse, Lacey etc. it wouldn’t be unreasonable for her to have a fear of magic. She once saw magic kill Rumple, and then it killed Neal and then Rumple was never the same.

After he was free from Zelena, the darkness took over and Rumple lost control. He went after the hat because he thought that would save him. The dagger made him a slave, I can certainly understand the fear of being controlled. The first thing Zelena ordered him to do was kill Belle. He said in Our Decay that he “loved the dagger” but it’s the power the dagger represents.

Belle once used the gauntlet and she thought that power was what he loved most. I think it’s pretty much accepted in the Rumbelle fandom that the gauntlet showed his weakness not what he loved the most – Belle has always been his strength. I really don’t see why he can’t have both, his magic and Belle. She first fell in love with him as the dark one – a sorcerer – so why should he now have to be anything less than himself?

Rumple said that Belle would see that “he was right” and I certainly hope she does. I think he is right. She said that she couldn’t condone him being like this again – but why not? What exactly is she objecting to? Rumple never did anything ‘villainous’ until after Zelena had killed his son, tortured him for a year and the darkness took hold of his heart. Oh sure he was never a saint but was he such a danger to the town when he worked with them against Cora? allied with them in Neverland to find Henry? defeated Pan?

I have written before that I don’t think anyone is all good, or all evil – we are both. Life isn’t so black and white, it’s just all shades of grey. I’ve long thought so-called villains made the best heroes, precisely because they will do what is necessary to get the job done. They don’t have the hangups about ‘I can go this far, but not that far’ and so they are a lot more successful than people that hamstring themselves.

In ‘Her Handsome Hero’ Rumple basically talked so much sense. It was like he finally understood the truth about darkness and light, perhaps even found that prophesied balance. Belle on the other hand was pretty sanctimonious and then after the events with Gaston, rather than giving her a reality check it pushed her the other way.

I’m wondering if maybe this sleeping curse is a good thing because she is now trapped in the hall of mirrors. All she can do is reflect on her life and maybe a period of introspection will give her the time, and the space, that she needs to realize the truth of the matter. That Rumple is the same man now, that he has always been – her true love.

I firmly believe Rumple’s true loves kiss didn’t work in the underworld because he didn’t believe that it would. If he had faith in himself, in that Belle did actually love him, then it would have been fine. However, he’s taken too many knocks to have that certainty.

It’s like they are fighting between what they consciously try and think, and what they know deep down in their subconscious. I thought it was very telling that Belle kept correcting people that Rumple was her husband, that her first thought on arriving in the underworld was that Rumple needed her – that she went to look for him straight away.

Basically Rumbelle’s biggest problem is their failure to communicate. However, I have every faith that they can do it because they are true love. So long as they love one another, everything else should hopefully work out. That might be dangerously naive of me but if the canon on the show lets me down, there’s always fanfic.

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kingsbellamy:

DO YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF WRITER’S BLOCK WHERE YOU ALREADY HAVE A PLOT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT AND YOU JUST STARE AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN FOR HOURS UNTIL YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE DOCUMENT AND CURSE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE 

CAUSE I DO 

This is the nightmare that never ends. I’m halfway through a novel draft right now, complete outline, all I need to do is write. Can I do it? Well – see above – as that is kinda what is happening.

I have the utmost sympathy for anyone that struggles with this. It is incredibly frustrating!

Quick ‘Authors’ note

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I didn’t include this on my fanfic post but I wrote about it in my ‘Three hours left …’ post and now again here. I didn’t include my prompt! It was such an awesome prompt but it required Belle and Rumple to have kids. It would have fit beautifully with the fic, but I would have had to rewrite the first half so that they had at least one kid and I didn’t have time. I got my prompt after I started writing, I knew I should have had more patience.

However, I really enjoyed writing ‘Wizard Love’. I haven’t written fanfic in years and part of me is going “please no, no, nope, not happening, don’t suck me back in.” but the other part of me is going “this is when you discovered how much you loved writing, let’s get back to that.”

I’m definitely going to write at least one more fic, and it’s going to include the prompt I didn’t use for Wizard Love. I’m making no promises as to when I’ll write it – soon I hope! It’ll be fluff again and while it will miss this ‘Rumbelle is Hope’ event, hopefully it’ll still be welcome.

There are some other fanfic ideas swirling around, hence my “please no nope don’t suck me back in” begging. It’s like once you start thinking about fic, it’s hard to turn off the “what if?” and “that would be cool” ideas that keep popping up. I think that qualifies as a writers problem heh. I might be able to do the odd one shot, but I really don’t have time for long fanfics right now.

I want to see the finale! I have to wait until Wednesday 🙁 Although considering how I’m usually a season and a half behind on everything else I watch. Three days is nothing. I must learn patience.

Wizard Love

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@rumbelleishope written for the event.

Note: This is canon compliant up until near the end of season three. After
that, there has been a non-specified amount of time where Storybrooke hasn’t
exactly been perfectly peaceful, but Rumple and Belle have been together and
relatively happy. They got married and stayed that way basically, with no
dagger, or hat, or darkened heart to break them up. It’s just fluffy, and kinda
silly, I hope at least it makes one person smile 🙂

Oh and fair warning, there’s a bit of a side order of minor Hook bashing, and then some
OutlawQueen. I couldn’t quite resist. I never shipped OutlawQueen really but
I’m a sucker for a happy ending. Those guys got a raw deal, I’d like to make
that right.

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Read on AO3

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Note: I won’t link all the songs I used, but a search of YouTube should
find them. However, this is the song that sparked the idea for the whole fic –
Wizard Love. This isn’t the version I have, I’ve got Luke Conard’s cover but I think this video is actually the original.

I hope you enjoyed the fic 🙂 It was a bit silly but it was supposed to be fluffy and I struggle with that. This is also the first fanfic I’ve ever written for this fandom, and the first fanfic I’ve written in several years. I hope it didn’t suck too badly.

Three hours to go …

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If I’m understanding time zones right the finale will air in three hours. Being based in the UK I will hopefully a) be asleep then and b) I won’t see the episodes until Wednesday when they go up on Netflix.

I haven’t quite finished my Rumbelle is Hope fic and if I’m going to post it tomorrow I’m going to have to leave my prompt out. I started writing before I got the prompt and I was going to have to rewrite a chunk to make it work. I was going to do that but it’s been the week from hell and I do want to post the fic for the event.

That being said with the time difference it should hopefully still be posted before America wakes up. Plus I really want to use my prompt so that just means another fic in the future. So there is a positive spin to this.

Before Last Rites aired I said I was going to try and avoid reading tumblr so I didn’t get completely spoiled – epic failure. I got no self control and man Wednesday seems so far away!

I’m keeping my fingers crossed Rumple, Belle and Regina come out of the finale ok and are well set up for season six. That’s all I want. Possibly too much to ask, we shall see.

Enjoy the finale everyone! Try and not bite the nails too badly 🙂

11 Questions

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It seemed rude to ignore the tag, plus there were some good questions so I figured I would answer. However, I’ve never really tagged anyone before, plus I have a great fear about being unintentionally irritating, so I’m going to answer but not pass it on for now. I will write 11 new questions at the bottom, and if anyone wants to join in then please do.

Oh and on my personal blog I always use a read more tag so that my posts aren’t mega long. I wasn’t bothering to do that here, as no-one else on my dash seemed to so I figured it wasn’t the done thing. Then I read a post someone saying it was impolite not to use the read more tag, on long posts, so I’m going to default back to using it again.

1) What name would appear on your dwarf axe?
Being realistic probably something like ‘Flighty’ given my focus levels these days. I mean I’m supposed to be working on my Rumbelle is Hope fic due tomorrow, saw this and swapped. I am that kinda hopeless. I would love something like ‘Author’ though, along with a gazillion other people I’m sure. Writing is what I love (procrastination aside) and so much like ‘Doc’ if anything was going to define me, I would like it to be that.

2) What are you looking forward to during the OUAT hiatus?
That the writers take a common sense pill and season six takes a massive upswing. I don’t want to say it can’t get any worse, because some weeks it seems like they are determined to prove me wrong. For a non-show answer, I have a number of projects that need to be completed by September. If I reach September and I have done everything, then I will be in a really good place. So I guess I’m looking forward to hopeful productivity, which given my focusing issues, well let’s just cross fingers and hope for the best on all counts.

3) What would you plant in your dream yard/garden?
I don’t really like the outdoors. I hate bugs, so all the outdoors is good for (in my opinion) is a place to put the barbecue. I wouldn’t really plant anything, if I had to plant something it would be like a cactus. I wouldn’t have to do anything with it, it wouldn’t flower and attract insects, so win win on most scores.

4) What would you like to see Bobby in as his next project after Once?
Wondering what Robert Carlyle would do after the show was a subject of a recent post. In it I hoped it would be a role like Gold/Dr Rush as they are my favourite. I would love him to do another TV show. A character who is sarcastic, brilliant, pragmatic, all around awesome. You know, it might even be fun if it was shown from his POV for once. He usually plays the ‘misunderstood’ character that the ‘heroes’ think is evil. The audience generally views through the lens of the hero, well what if he was the hero, (well anti-hero) and showed how reckless, stupid, prejudiced etc. the regular ‘heroes’ are.

5) A good autobiography you’ve read? (Or one you would like to read?)
I can safely say I’ve never read an autobiography and to be honest I have no desire to read one. I don’t know, nothing about it appeals to me, unless it was a fictional autobiography. So it would be written as if it wasn’t fiction (like a regular autobiography) but the subject would be a character, rather than a real person. I would read the hell out of one of those, for any character I had any interest in.

6) Recommend a TV show that you thought was really good but not that many people might know about.
I am still bitter about Almost Human being cancelled, so I’m tempted to say that one. If it was cancelled, then clearly not enough people knew how awesome it was. However, it’s like the pain that never ends, it was awesome and it only lasted for 14 episodes and they didn’t answer so many questions! For something that lasted a little longer, wow I don’t know, what don’t people know about? How about I just list a couple; Dark Matter, which is still airing (season two this summer), Flashpoint or Hustle (both long over). All quality shows in my opinion.

7) What crayon/s in the box did you always wear down first?
Blue, it’s my favourite colour.

8) Favourite thing hanging on the wall of your bedroom (or home)?
I really like my NaNo posters, I have three of them on the wall of my office. My favourite one is this one – Batyisms – because I need the motivational push more often than I like to admit. However, I think I’m going to have to go for the calendar my mum makes me every year. I send her photos and quotes and she personally handmakes it. Last year was Stargate themed, this year it’s Once Upon a Time. My Stargate calendar was very equitable, all characters were represented because I like them all, I don’t have a clear favourite. My Once calendar is entirely Rumbelle and Regina pretty much. I don’t dislike anyone but I do have real favourites. I think next year I’ll do Marvel films, there’s more than enough for one film per month now.

9) Favourite breakfast cereal?
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. I eat it everyday, without fail pretty much. I’ve even been known to take a box with me when I go stay other places.

10) Share an interesting fact or story of your choice!
Urk, ok what defines interesting? Is this about me or just generally? Yeah I don’t really know so I’m going to leave this question, sorry.

11) Favourite myth from any culture; bonus points for what about it appeals to you.
This would require me to know myths. Unfortunately that’s not something I know terribly much about. Yeah I know, I’ve sucked at answering some of these questions. Man, I’m trying to think. Can I say the myth of Atlantis? I mean it’s been around for a really long time and I’ve seen variations of it used in many different TV shows/movies. I love how there can be so many different adaptations of the same source material. The same with Camelot arguably because I guess they are like original stories. I mean Arthurian legend, the basic story of King Arthur ‘the chosen one’, the trope of which, the ‘wise mentor’, raised in ‘obscurity’ etc. could apply to so many of the major franchises. I supposed it’s the evolution of story that fascinates me the most, and how it changes over time.

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A different set of 11 questions:
1) If you have seen Captain America: Civil War, then are you on the side of Cap or Iron Man? I just saw the movie yesterday and there was not an easy answer. If you haven’t seen it, then I don’t know, who’s your favourite avenger?
2) What video game did you last play?
3) Favourite TV show currently airing/favourite cancelled? If the answer is Once, then second favourite, I wonder what else you guys watch.
4) What do you like to listen to when writing/working/exercising? (pick whatever you do, I’m trying to make these questions work for everyone)
5) What was the first fandom you joined?
6) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?
7) Apple, Android or other?
8) Cat person, dog person or other?
9) Coffee, tea or other?
10) What is your dream job?
11) If you had a time turner, what would you spend the extra hours doing? e.g. more time for work, play, exercise, socialising etc. I think most people wish there were more hours in the day.

I hope those questions are ok.

Last Rites Plothole

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There were many but the one I kept thinking about last night, is why did Hades kill Arthur? Hades said he needed Arthur to do something for him but then he never gave him a task. I was expecting Arthur to do something to stop Hook from getting the pages, or some other sabotage but that never happened.

What if Hades wanted a backup plan and pulled a Peter Pan on Arthur? Pan swapped bodies with Henry, what if Hades just duplicated his consciousness into Arthur, so that no matter what happened next he would live on. It explains why at the end Arthur was saying that he was going to take over the Underworld. Although to be fair, with Arthur’s ambition, he would probably want to rule wherever he was regardless.

That’s the only thing I can think of which would make sense. With the writers love of Zelena, it would leave her a plotline open (as her ‘true love’ could return) and we know no-one on the show ever truly dies unless they are Neal or now Robin.

Still doesn’t explain Hook’s ‘miracle’ poofing back to life. Maybe, off screen Hook found an artifact that controls gods, and he used it on Zeus. Either that or Zeus is getting a big bag of popcorn and sitting back to watch the fireworks. Hook’s resurrection is so blatantly unfair, even without being contrasted directly with Robin’s death, that it has to cause trouble. Maybe screwing with regular people, is like god’s version of a soap opera.

Last Rites – Live Blog

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I wrote my comments down while watching. The episode was about what I expected but it still stung.

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I nearly killed myself laughing – Zelena is going to tell people not to worry, Hades has changed and is no longer a villain. Zelena! Erm when did she become trustworthy?

Wait when did Arthur get arrested? Those looked like handcuffs. I kinda don’t remember how that ended and what happened to him. It got forgotten with – Hook is a dark one. I’m confused.

Oh maybe Arthur’s arrest happened off screen. That makes sense but still they should show that kind of thing or at least explain it. I’m relatively good at remembering everything and forming a consistent timeline of events in my mind. The average viewer not so much. I used to watch this with mum and she quit as she got too confused.

How come kids have unfinished business? That’s kinda sad. I mean I get they didn’t get to grow up but kids should be innocent enough not to have regrets.

Wait when did Zelena fall for Hades so hard? I mean one minute she’s saying she can’t trust him, she’s not sure whether she can believe in their love and boom now she’s a sycophant. I don’t get it.

Oh yes! Robin finally confronting Regina about this ridiculous Zelena insta-redemption. Oh no Regina 🙁 she looks shocked and a bit offended at his words. Don’t be like that Robin is right.

The Rumple scene. I confess I had seen a lot of gifs of this and there was obviously one made up gif. “I have good news and bad news. Belles pregnant and I’m the father” “what’s the good news?” I thought that was real but the actual scene was epic anyway. I loved Rumple going “and why should I help you? It’s your fault.” because it so is and about time the so called heroes get called on their hypocrisy.

At least everyone now seems to be realising how unstable Emma is.

Wait so Zelena has given up all plans? She just wants a house with a picket fence, her kid and her man.

Oh eeek Rumple and Hades phone convo! I freaking love how badass Rumple is right now.

Wait? What? Zelena is owed another chance? But then I suppose as much as I love Regina she was the evil queen and did Zelena really do anything much worse than what Regina did in the past? I guess we have to be even handed about this redemption thing but I haven’t seen Zelena even apologise or do anything really to warrant redemption. Regina had season two and three as a journey back to the light.

Seriously Hook you hesitated? There was no reason to at the time, it didn’t seem like the book was in danger.

Why is Zelena suddenly adverse to fighting for what she wants?

Seriously Hades didn’t look behind him? They were just against the wall.

Ok why didn’t Regina try and blast Hades with magic or something. They just stood there but oh wow Robin, he saved her, he jumped in front of it. He died for her that is just wow. What a guy. That was heartbreaking.

Regina’s glare at Hades reminds me of when Cora fell and she looks up at Snow. “You did this.” – Evil Queen activated.

That shard is a terrible prop. It looks like the plastic mold it is.

Regina’s speech on love. That was actually very good. Now why can’t the writers read their own words and realise CaptainSwan doesn’t have that, not anymore at least, if they ever did. Their love is toxic, poisoning everything it touches just like Zelena and Hades. Love is Rumbelle, is Snowing and hell though I’ve never shipped it before I think I’ve come round to OutlawQueen.

Wait I thought Zeus was Hades ‘older brother’. Also did I blink and I miss it? How was Hook responsible for what happened? Regina and Robin confronted Hades, Hades used the crystal on Robin, Zelena then chose to kill Hades and not Regina. The interlude with Emma outside, and the pages, told Zelena nothing that she didn’t already think – that the ‘heroes’ wanted to kill Hades. Really if anything it made it less likely that Zelena would side with Regina. The fact that she did has everything to do with Regina and nothing to do with Emma. Nothing Hook did had any effect on the outcome.

Awww the funeral. They are putting arrows on his coffin 🙁 I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Ugh they named her Robin. There are no words as to how wrong that is. Even if we are to accept Zelena’s ‘redemption’. Some things can’t be undone and pretending like it was something it wasn’t. No for true redemption you need to own your crimes.

Ok and the prize for the biggest lie goes to – Snow! You know that is the second time she has come out with a whopper like that. First time was saying everyone chose to make the trip to the underworld (conveniently forgetting about blackmailing Rumple) and now this. “I know what you are thinking and it’s not your fault” – well who’s fault is it then? There is a direct causal link between Emma’s actions and Robin’s death. I know Emma is your daughter Snow but taking responsibility for her actions is something you should teach her to do, not shield her from!

I do love how they get the same actors back. Little John for example.

They are literally making out at Robin’s grave. There are again no words.

It’s ok everyone crisis averted. Rumple’s sheer awesomeness coming straight after took my mind off the travesty to human decency. No wait I’m still pissed. Hook did nothing to help and gets rewarded by being returned to life? One of my biggest complaints about the underworld arc was “why should Hook get special treatment?”

Everyone has lost someone. Why is Hook worthy of being brought back? Why not Daniel (you know Regina’s first love that she spent years trying to find a way to bring back), or Belle’s mum, or Charming’s mum, either of Snow’s parents, Neal for crying out loud – but “magic can do much but not that. Dead is dead.” – at least right up until it’s Hook.

I would have thought Neal’s act was far more helpful and heroic than Hook’s.

Seriously writers I get the real life reasons. You want to keep Hook on the show – then it was really not a good plan to kill him off! Seriously who thought that was a good plan?You want to keep Zelena on the show and not in jail hence the personality transplant, instant redemption nonsense. The actress who plays Belle needed maternity leave hence the sleeping curse. You wanted to write Robin out hence his heartbreaking pointless death. I understand why but there are other ways, it all could have been handled differently and so much better.

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That’s the live blog done. You know it wasn’t the worst episode of the season by a long stretch. Rumple was epic, Robin was heartbreaking and said some sensible stuff.

Double bill finale next week. I’ve seen the promo pics 🙂 I’m trying not to get my hopes up but Regina and Rumple! On screen together! Not fighting! Please let them be teaming up. Now that would be a finale worth watching.