Finding the dagger and the Guardian, a day in H-Town, the writers playing Mad Libs and more in our full-discussion of “The Guardian”!

For this episode, they wrapped up storylines quickly and in a way that doesn’t really make sense at all. It wasn’t horrible but not that great, a little frustrating and a bit all over the place. However, there were still some things that are good and interesting that keeps us theorizing.

The Dagger and The Guardian

One thing we really enjoyed much in this episode though is Alice, both in the past and present day. Do they know all along that Alice is the Guardian? Or did they just decided on Alice after finding out the show is ending after the 7th season so they wrapped the Anastasia storyline quickly and made Alice the new Guardian?

They had a lot of rules for engagement for this episode, and Rumplestltskin talked about curing the poisoned heart and it makes sense that it needs just as dark magic, Rumple also said that the only cure for a poisoned heart is to sacrifice someone else’s, but is dark magic really the only way to do it? They also gave a very good definition of the guardian, which is someone who can be a great hero a protector of the Dark One dagger.

Back in the season with the Dark Ones, we theorized that Emma could be the one who could wield both dark and light magic. Say, all the cast didn’t leave at the end of the last season, wouldn’t she be a good candidate for being the Guardian? She wouldn’t even have to change her role title.

my theory: rumple will actually be the guardian. he was destined to be a savior and he will be the savior in the end. he has saved them all in almost every finale, even against his own parents. keep this in mind. Rumple, the most evil, tortured, soul of them all. will in the end, save them all and be final savior. he is his own guardian. his own pure heart will save them all. MARK MY WORDS.

I also believe Emma’s going to come back and kiss Henry in the finale episodes. I just know it. The last curse will be broken, they will be finding a way to help Henry stay alive and Emma will enter the picture and keep him alive. I just know this! Ask me in 3-6 weeks if I was right.

— Faye Weber

If this comes true, it would be a nice throwback to the earlier seasons, both with Emma breaking the curse and Rumple destined to become a Savior. One thing that we learned this episode is that the guardian is necessarily nestled with immortality. So this theory about being Rumplestiltskin being his own Savior is interesting. How will Rumple find another way? After several seasons, they started treating Rumple being the Dark One like Zelena’s jealousy.

It was fun to see Dr. Facilier’s voodoo not working on Rumplestiltskin, although Rumple’s Belle shrine was a little creepy. Aside from that, they keep saying that if Rumple does anything bad, he won’t see Belle. Will Alice accept the guardianship after all if this is the only way to get close with her father? Rumple lied to Alice about why they were going to see Dr. Facilier, then lied in saying he wanted her to kill him, all as a test. Gothel much? Could it be that that’s exactly what Gothel’s been doing and she didn’t necessarily want people dead?

It was nice that Rumple let Alice live a normal life, however, if Alice is destined to be the guardian, will it really be a burden to Alice if Rumplestiltskin let her fulfill her destiny? Is Alice still going to be the guardian? She’s about 90% on the way there, after all.

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