Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20140120210835/@comment-1916997-20140220055346

AppleTree23 wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Saintfighteraqua wrote: I have a big feeling that it won't be Neal who dies. My main reason for believing this is all evidence is pointing to him and we know how the creators like to trick us. They like to trick us.... since when?

Everything pointed to Graham being the Huntsman and dying, in 1.07. Guess what.... both those things happened. The moment it was revealed that Baelfire escaped to "our world", everyone *knew* he would turn to be Henry's father. Same can be said, for the Cora is the Queen of Hearts reveal. Not to mention, Regina acting as "Ursula" from ''The Little Mermaid. '' just because fans connected the dots doesn't me that they wanted us to. 1.07 ''was the episode of Graham's death. ''There really weren't any signs pointing to this the first 6 eps. And who would have guess that Dr. Whale was Dr. Frankenstien? There were almost no traces of that. They threw us off with August stuff, too. Fans speculated about Pinocchio, but no one could figure that he was put in the wardrobe before Emma, so there was a lot of back and forth there. Also, everyone thought that Neal was going to be Peter Pan.

I think they try to keep most of the stuff a surprise. There is really no correct argument here, some fans guess things right, some guess things wrong, some things everyone knows is going to happen, others take everyone by suprise. But really this is just how canons work. The creators have to play a fine line between foreshadowing and keeping people suprised. Do too much foreshadowing, people say the show (or whatever medium) gets boring and predictable, do too much unexpected suprises, people say the show (or whatever medium) is just doing things that no one expects just to screw with people, and that the show has no meaning or direction. For example, I knew (or correctly speculated) that Baelfire would be Henry's father and that Regina would be Ursula, long before either of the things had happened due to foreshadowing and background information (like that Lana's favorite Disney villian is Ursula). Other things came as quite a shock, like who Dr. Whale's counterpart was, and who August was. So like I said it's a balance and everyone must remember that, not everything is going to be a suprise, becuase foreshadowing is an important plot element, but it is not going to all be things we know months in advance either, otherwise, why even watch the show?