Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25733960-20161205025332/@comment-1218007-20161228121938

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Gideon:

- Find out what the Black Fairy did to him that made him rapidly age and want to kill Emma.

The rapid aging can be easily explained - they've already said that time moves differently in the Dark Realm than in normal.

Now, I'm seeing a lot of parallels between Gideon and Connor, a character who was born in the third season of Joss Whedon's Angel:


 * Both he and Connor were the sons of a hero and a villain (though Connor's mother was technically the evil one - his father was long since reformed).
 * Both were kidnapped as infants and taken to another, notoriously dark dimension (Quor'toth for Connor, the Black Fairy's realm for Gideon).
 * In both dimensions, time moves differently from Earth (Connor was in Quor'toth for eighteen years, while only days passed on Earth; Gideon looks to be nineteen or twenty, and was gone from Storybrooke for less than a day).
 * Both were raised by a villainous character who taught them to hate a specific (and heroic) person and intended to use them as a weapon against that person. (Gideon was raised by the Black Fairy to hate Emma; Connor was raised by Holtz to hate Angel, Connor's own birth father.)

If the parallels continue... Gideon and Emma's eventual clash will lead in her being incapacitated but not killed, and afterward, Gideon will ultimately get some sense knocked into him and wind up joining the good guys, though not without facing additional hardships in the process.

Of course, I could be completely mistaken.

Until next time...

Anon e Mouse Jr.