Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-22525977-20131029023758

Rafadeq wrote: "Skipping merrily off to Canada"? Right... just as "he ostensibly left her so she could fulfill her destiny". 1. merrily in the sense of he had zero problem doing it, never mind how visibly upset he was. Not literally. (Who uses merrily straight anymore, anyway?)

2. A complete stranger told him he had to dump Emma and let her go to jail so she could go save some cursed town ten years down the line and the proof offered of this is "I know you're Baelfire." Neal's reaction was basically "Well... okay." We know he didn't agonize too much over this decision, because he skips out on Emma that same night and lets her get caught with the watches.

And I'm supposed to conclude from this that Neal isn't a selfish jerk at worst, a spineless coward at best because...?