Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-1962215-20131025071041/@comment-5653628-20131025190039

Personally, I wonder if people just dislike Neal because he's a wrench between the CaptainSwan ship or because they adore Rumple and are furious on Neal's treatment of him. I would certainly not forgive my own father for abandoning me for 300 years.

Neal didn't know that Rumple regretted the decision straight away, and his last memory of his father was letting him go - and then he has had all those years to simmer on that thought. No way, Neal would forgive his father straight away. Neal even got 'evidence' that Rumple wasn't that redeemed, when he was beating Whale - exactly what he used to do in their village.