Oh God, the Rumple+Regina scenes in that episode were the best. And this → I love how she had lost patience with everyone else and went off to find him so they could actually get stuff done and he she finds him like that - yes! Poor Regina with her "not you as well!", so alone. I liked her shock later, when she finds out that perhaps Rumple isn't on her side (what with the prophesy) – admittedly, there was no good reason to assume he didn't want to save Henry, and it all turned out all right, but she's always so surprised.

Ah, I loved the Disney movie, though I haven't seen it in years. I think I'm fine with the creepiness of her being kept in a cage: there's a fitting sense of child-cruelty and literalness to it, if that makes sense (putting people in cages is something I associate with children's stories villains).
The thing is, Wendy in that movie and the book is very important to Pan, and holds a certain amount of power, so it's a but sad to see her reduced to such a passive role where it it isn't even important that she's the one being held here (Henry would have choosen to save magic for someone else too). Though I guess I'm glad there was no sense of romance between them her and Pan, considering. What you say about them simply not having planned for anything for her to do makes a lot of sense, that seems likely (to be honest, I'd have liked it better if she'd just lived her life her 'our' world and had died of natural causes, and I hope perhaps there's a compelling plot reason why they couldn't do that).

When the new season starts up I'll start a new comment thread for each new episode that way anyone can jump in and participate in a particular epiodes' discusion anytime they want. Even if you don't watch an episode right away (since a lot of people don't these days) you can check for the comment thread later whenever you get around to watching a particular episode and jump in anytime.
That sounds great! I hope I'll be able to participate!