Right there with you on Belle/Rumple - I am rather squicked by them as well, but far too ambivalent to really care whether they get together or not or to expend energy in fighting people over it. I don't really want either with anyone else so that helps.
I do think the writers are somewhat tongue fully in cheek regarding the pairing. The commentary on two of the episodes was telling. Plus there's a pattern in Belle's behavior that I picked up on upon the rewatch: 1) she is "proud" of her ability to rehabilitate monsters and brags about it on numerous occasions, (in fact Regina plays her - using that knowledge), 2) she sees Rumple as "cursed" similar to "Philip being turned into a monster by Mal" - he's not cursed, he tells her he chose it, but she doesn't quite want to see it, 3) she likes impossible relationships - the more impossible the better, 4) as Lacey - she demonstrated a definite love for nasty abusive bad boys who liked to beat up people...I'm guessing Belle's a bit repressed. I feel sorry for the Rumpele/Belle shippers - you got to know that ship is not going to end well. They never do.
How much do I LOVE that Rumple is an Emma/Nealfire 'shipper though? That's awesome to behold,
Oh so agree. I adored his little exchange with Nealfire.
Neal: You never even took the time to get to know Tamara. Rumple: Why should I? Neal: I'm marrying her - Rumple: Oh that'll never last, not when you are clearly still carrying a torch for Emma.
LOL!
Rumple over-identifies with Emma. And they are paralleled beautifully. Both lose Baelfire through a portal. Both lose their sons through a portal. Both have parental abandonment issues. Both have child abandonment issues.
but not any guarantee there's a long term future for E/N (kind of the opposite in fact--Rumple tends to destroy everything he touches, but I'm paranoid).
True. I'm not sure where they'll go with it. I don't see a happy romance on Emma's horizon. Charming/Snow can be happy because they are sort of in the background, or her parents. But Emma is going to struggle more.
I do hope it continues to stay his hand where the product of Emma and Neal is concerned.
Well, it will be interesting to see what he does if Emma hooks up with (I have to come up with a different phrase) Hook and Neal pops up again. Or for that matter if Neal hooks up with someone else (although I don't see that happening after the Tamara fiasco.)
Both Emma and Neal have major issues in regards to romance.
Emma - got played by Neal and August, and when she fell for Sheriff Graeham, Regina ripped his heart out. (another link to Rumple - Regina told him that she killed Belle and Cora ripped her own heart out)
Neal - abandoned Emma to be noble, left Wendy Darling to be noble, and got played by Tamara.
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I do think the writers are somewhat tongue fully in cheek regarding the pairing. The commentary on two of the episodes was telling. Plus there's a pattern in Belle's behavior that I picked up on upon the rewatch: 1) she is "proud" of her ability to rehabilitate monsters and brags about it on numerous occasions, (in fact Regina plays her - using that knowledge), 2) she sees Rumple as "cursed" similar to "Philip being turned into a monster by Mal" - he's not cursed, he tells her he chose it, but she doesn't quite want to see it, 3) she likes impossible relationships - the more impossible the better, 4) as Lacey - she demonstrated a definite love for nasty abusive bad boys who liked to beat up people...I'm guessing Belle's a bit repressed.
I feel sorry for the Rumpele/Belle shippers - you got to know that ship is not going to end well. They never do.
How much do I LOVE that Rumple is an Emma/Nealfire 'shipper though? That's awesome to behold,
Oh so agree. I adored his little exchange with Nealfire.
Neal: You never even took the time to get to know Tamara.
Rumple: Why should I?
Neal: I'm marrying her -
Rumple: Oh that'll never last, not when you are clearly still carrying a torch for Emma.
LOL!
Rumple over-identifies with Emma. And they are paralleled beautifully.
Both lose Baelfire through a portal. Both lose their sons through a portal. Both have parental abandonment issues. Both have child abandonment issues.
but not any guarantee there's a long term future for E/N (kind of the opposite in fact--Rumple tends to destroy everything he touches, but I'm paranoid).
True. I'm not sure where they'll go with it. I don't see a happy romance on Emma's horizon. Charming/Snow can be happy because they are sort of in the background, or her parents. But Emma is going to struggle more.
I do hope it continues to stay his hand where the product of Emma and Neal is concerned.
Well, it will be interesting to see what he does if Emma hooks up with (I have to come up with a different phrase) Hook and Neal pops up again. Or for that matter if Neal hooks up with someone else (although I don't see that happening after the Tamara fiasco.)
Both Emma and Neal have major issues in regards to romance.
Emma - got played by Neal and August, and when she fell for Sheriff Graeham, Regina ripped his heart out. (another link to Rumple - Regina told him that she killed Belle and Cora ripped her own heart out)
Neal - abandoned Emma to be noble, left Wendy Darling to be noble, and got played by Tamara.