Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-23871096-20131028210817

TNOandXadric wrote: Be that as it may, (a) Neal is not prescienct and therefore has no way of knowing and (b) one of my biggest pet peeves is characters who just go "oh okay" and flop around like dead fishes when someone tells them that things will happen this way because fate said so. Fatalist characters are annoying and passive and generally not very nice people, because they're the types who will say "I have a chance to try to stop bad things from happening, but why bother because I'm not the one destined to fix stuff." The "Chosen Ones" who act because fate says so are incrementally beter, because at least they get stuff done, but I'm not impressed by anyone who does the right thing because destiny! rather than doing the right thing because it's right.

And, all that aside, I don't think abandoning Emma to jail and skipping merrily off to Canada was the right thing to do by any stretch of the imagination, anymore than Milah leaving Rumpel was the right thing to do (although far more understandable in her case, since she was utterly miserable and didn't leave because Pinnochio showed up and told her she should). Yes but what if Neal decided to do the "right thing" and it failed. His decision was holding lives in the balance.

He had faith that if he did what pinocchio said. It would all turn out for the better even if their were rough patches along the way.

Sure, so many characters suffered so greatly. But hopefully life will turn out with a glorious happy ending for all of them. Just like a Disney fairytale.<3