Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-264749-20130218073608/@comment-174.49.83.252-20130223185024

The only argument against Bae being Peter that hold any water is that the producers supposedly said that there wouldn't be a Peter Pan. And if that information is true then the debate is over.

As far as everyone trying to use extensive characterization from the books as their proof need to consider something. First writers like to twist the stories around for their own purposes. Examples: Red Riding Hood is the wolf. Jack the Giant Killer is an unscrupulous woman. Second these writers seem to favor the Disney movie version of tale as their starting point. Don't believe me? Then try this on for size if a nameless fairytale character is given a name in a Disney movie they use it. Examples: Seven dwarves (read the fairytale they aren't named.), Auroa, and Phillip. There is no Gaston character in the actual fairytale of Beauty and the Beast. In orginal Grimm's version of Snow White wasn't woken up by "true loves kiss." Oh no, the prince came across her  body lying in the glass and decided that she was so beautiful that he couldn't bear to be without her dead corpse. So he strapped her coffin to his horse and started dragging it away. The coffin was jostled so much that it over turned and when she fell out the apple dislodged from her throat. Snow White woke up and they lived happily ever after. Oh, and Snow White and Prince Charming were less than merciful to the Evil Queen. Snow and Charming had red hot iron shoes strapped to the Queen's feet and forced to dance until she drops dead.

I can see an appeal to making Bae, Peter Pan. He's already had dealing with fairies so Tinker Bell could be considered covered. Peter Pan cutting off Hook's hand and feeding it to the crocodile is an iconic moment. Making Bae Peter then Peter Pan would still be indirectly the reason Hook lost his hand as Rumple was after the magic bean to reach Bae. Of course the appeal of making Bae simply a lost boy is that the writers can make Peter Pan into a compulsive liar.



