Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20170803053127/@comment-5925413-20171023082654

JennaMae wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: KyleBraxton wrote: I may be looking into this too much, but the house Belle and Gold are at, kind of bares a remembrance to the house from UP. Like the window placements and the overall look of the house looks the same. xD It's possible, they seem to be in an area similar to where Carl and the kid (forgot his name) wind up in Up. This is interesting to me when you consider that the main Rumbelle tease for this episode was that we'll see their life together over the years. "Up" had a really nice montage of Ellie and Carl, which ended in her death when she got old. If there's any connection (as far as the house goes, definitely looks like it was modeled after the movie), that makes me wonder if they're going to show us a bunch of flashforwards, including an adult Gideon after ~28 real years have passed, and have it end with Rumple losing Belle. Maybe she dies, maybe something else happens to her and they got separated. I mean, the "Up" montage ended on a sad note but we're still led to believe they lived a very fulfilling life before her death. That could still be considered a happy ending. But also, as long as Rumple is the Dark One, he will naturally outlive her.

The thing off about that theory would be how Rumple ends back up with a 20s Henry and a Regina that doesn't look like she has aged much. Maybe this is the "real Rumple" and the interviews didn't lie......but like, from many decades into the future? Does he need to change something? Looks like we're in for a good twist, so I'm curious.

That's my thought too, and since Belle wanted to see the world, the best gift Rumple could give her is a life-long trip over all the worlds they could visit, which'd mean, as it did for Henry, that Belle would grow old "faster" in some realms than others. Now back when she was Lacey, she asked Gold if he could keep her young, so we still have to see if this decision came up again or not.