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Anubis16 wrote: The doormouse wrote: All kudos to Robert Carlyle for this episode - an actor who was abandoned as a small boy by his own mother.

It can't be easy to work with storylines of child abandonment such as this. I had no idea, some of this show makes me think of Into the Woods. Not because they both involve fairy tales but because Rumple was abondoned by his parents like how the baker's father abondoned him and he tried to abandon his kid. Though I guess that's a common theme in fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents, Rapunzel was given away by her parents, Beauty was given away by her father, etc.

And also many other fairytale characters wind up orphaned (Snow, Cinderella, etc.). So much so Disney Orphan Syndrome is a thing. XD