“I’m really starting to dislike this fandom and its obsession with Rumpelstiltskin. The Stranger has NOTHING to do with Mr. Gold, since it looks like he’ll be more involved with Henry and Emma. And looking at spoilers, a little bit of Regina too. But NO GOLD. Seriously, guys, get over it. He’s not Baelfire, or Mr. Gold’s other long lost son, or even his ex-boyfriend. Get. Over. It.”
The Stranger is Mr. Gold’s ex-boyfriend. Well, shit, who else wants that now?

Also, a lot of people in this fandom seem to love the phrase ‘get over it’. Come on, you’re not Don Henley, just let it be.
So help me if The Stranger is Emma’s new love interest. Seriously. How long are they going to play off the “Emma’s new and different and attractive, we should just pair her with every guy we can.”
According to IMDB, he’s only on for 2 more eps, tonight and next week…so I’m sure it will be a long and torrid love affair, lol. On this show, if they say he’s suspicious, then he probably is.

NO! RUN EMMA! NEVER GO WITH A HIPPIE TO A SECOND LOCATION!!! OR THE SAME LOCATION TWICE!!! OOH YOU’RE SO MYSTERIOUS WITH YOUR TYPEWRITER IN A BOX. AND THEN YOU’RE LIKE GOOD NEWS, SHERIFF, I HAVE THE WHOLE AFTERNOON FREE TO BE A DOUCHE TO YOU AND THIS TOWN. IT’S LIKE, OH REALLY? DID NOTHING CANCEL?
OMG. MAYBE. HOLY SHIT. I HOPE YOU’RE RIGHT!
This is one of the best theories I’ve ever read!! I really hope you’re right! That would be the mindfuck of all mindfucks!!
OH I LIKE THIS. From the writers of Lost, indeed. Gay parent trap, indeed.
GO AWAY.
BINGO.

Eion Bailey and Jennifer Morrison on the set, 30 January 2012 (x)(x)
She looks… stressed.
^^that’s coz she has an overbearing girlfriend*cough *regina *cough* who is over enthusiastic in bed and who keeps on texting her as you can see:P
He’s totally like the gay friend with all the good relationship advice, look at that pink scarf! He’s like ‘Girlfriend trouble? Awww you poor bb, Eion is here!’
#yeh totally figured it out #stranger is the gay friend that’s gonna help swan queen
Haha, yep, nailed it! That scarf does not effectively hide his gay thunder.

And I’m a Never-Sober! There are hundreds of millions of us.
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I really hope this is true. It would be awesome and just leave so much more room for ‘Back to the Swan Queen: Imagine it’s a Gay Parent Trap (with) Me and You, Actually’ activities!

I finally watched OUAT 1x13 en totale (and it was pretty much a shit show compared to last week) but I was getting REALLY pissed about Emma from the very start…When/Why/HOW did ‘Only one knows the truth and only one can break her spell’ become ‘Who knows the truth and who can break the spell?’

Really? Then you have your hero go with the Stranger with the Serial Killer Name on HIS VEHICLE to an SECOND LOCATION NEVER GO WITH A HIPPIE TO A SECOND LOCATION GOD abandoned well and then proceed to drink ‘magic’ water that somehow only he knows about.

Really? Then you have her just find the book. In a sewer. While she’s being watched from literally!LITERALLY two feet away. AND YOU HAVE HER BE LIKE WHAT OTHER EXPLANATION IS THERE?

The ONLY way that any of this is acceptable is if The Stranger is future!Henry and they go full ‘Back to the Future’ on us (I mean, they did reference Tron, so COME ON! And I actually am intrigued about the Stranger now but NOT THE SITUATION PRESENTLY) BECAUSE WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO EMMA, JFC?! It has never been more apparent to me than now that there is only one solution to halt this character assassination taking place:

I just checked, and you’re right. Eion is officially listed as a series regular.

I just checked, and you’re right. Eion is officially listed as a series regular.
I’m glad he will be sticking around. I actually like him. I feel like people aren’t giving him a chance because they’re too emotionally invested in Swan Queen becoming actualized but he’s an interesting character and his story line really has me intrigued.
Sorry to jump on your post, but actually my reservations have nothing to do with Swan Queen. I tagged my post ‘Come back Graham’. They mainly have to do with ‘Emma as the hero’ potentially being sidelined for this guy. I am interested in how he fits in the story but I don’t like the way they’ve set it up with Emma just being played by him. What can I say, I smell fried baloney all over him right now. You know, ‘cause of the serial killer name and such.

I do find it cliché. (beware spoilers!)
No.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH BOTH OF THOSE THINGS? The first one makes me even more mad than the second because the second would be kinda hot in a fanfic sort of way BUT NOT AS A FUCKING REALISTIC PLOT-LINE. Well, I guess I answered my own question then, nope THERE IS NOTHING THAT SHOWS THE SHOW IS ON REGINA’S SIDE EVEN A LITTLE OR UNDERSTANDS HER PAIN YOU JUST WANT TO PUNISH HER AND HATE HER AND WANT EVERYONE ELSE TO. If both of these are just straight-up true then show you done FUCKED UP big time…

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NEVER CHANGE, FANDOM. Please.

Once Upon a Time: “The Stranger” — Sneak Peak no. 1This ship is fast becoming a guilty pleasure.
This gives me so many feelings!!! This was my secret ship since the show started and now… well, you know…
Um…. oh my God… I’m so excited!!!!!
Oh em gee. Evil Charming (re) meet-cute!!! I mean, it is just the classic, age-old story, isn’t it? Boy meets girl. Boy doesn’t realize girl has cursed him and his entire family into oblivion and a life-long obsession with flannel shirts (He’s clearly a never-(not) flannel. THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!). Girl also has a mystical, psycho-sexual connection to boy’s daughter, who he doesn’t know is his daughter and *she* doesn’t know she’s his daughter and vicey versey cause they’re also all the same age, what with all the time stoppage, and whose son, boy’s grandson, girl adopted and has been raising as her own for the past ten years. And OHHH and how could I forget, girl has also been trying, kind of weirdly majorly unsuccessfully, to kill boy’s one true love, her former step-daughter, for most of her adult life.
