Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20150813005948/@comment-25926288-20150814005143

Begfhn wrote: I still don't understand why Rumpelstiltskin didn't go to Neverland to rescue Bae. He spends over a century looking for his son who doesn't arrive in our world until 8 years afer the curse. It must have occured to him that Bae was in Neverland as he knew Bae would be 35 more than a century later. It is possible Rumpel was afraid to face his father, although in Season 3 he willingly goes to save Henry, who he beleives is his undoing. We also learn in the later episodes that there are many ways to travel between realms that Rumpel never tried. Now this is the real plot hole or major plot problem. For a guy trying to find his son, he apparently didn't know where he was. He could have took Jefferson and rescue Bae because Pan probably wouldn't care about taking Bae.

You could say that he was afraid of his father, but he took Bae from Pan before without a care in the world. Just poofed, poofed. It more so looked like he was threatening to Pan in Nasty Habits.

Like how would he know his son is alive? He apparently knew that but apparently he never changed his plans to just go to Neverland. Now, if they showed that Rumple went to Neverland and Pan had Bae leave at the same time, then it would make sense.