Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180412153113/@comment-27060727-20180519060606

DeviousPeep wrote: As much as I love Rumple and Belle's afterlife reunion, Rumple should've got some kind of closure with Gideon first. It's awful how this season has completely neglected the fact Rumple has another son out there. Even more so that Giles Matthey was willing to return, but Adam and Eddy chose to not invite him back. Gideon should've appeared again before 7x22, in some sort of pre-curse NEF flashback.

Due to the way they ended up writing it with going straight from curse-breaking --> Wish Rumple --> Wish Realm --> Snowglobe --> death to stop Wish Rumple, there wasn't really room for them to squeeze Gideon in there unless he was already with the group before this, especially when you throw in the time travel. But since Rumple spent so many years looking for the Guardian in the NEF, they could've somehow written Gideon into Rumple's last centric instead of just referencing him.