Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20180519054612/@comment-35375250-20180520104405

Darkness is not Badness or Dark Magic. Darkness is a very specific entity linked to the power of the Grail and to the immortality that goes with it. So Rumple, by purifying his heart and killing himself ended the Dark One's Curse, just like Hook would have done in 5x11 if Rumple hadn't trick him.W!Rumple dies because without the DO's Curse he is just a 300 years old man, it's obvious that he vanishes. I think it all makes sense. Is it rushed? No doubt, but at least you can understand what happened.

For what concerns Regina, I really can't see the point of the criticism. This curse just made Storybrooke a new Fairy Tale World: why should the inhabitants not agree, if their lives continues in the same way with the one difference that now there are no problems in moving between the different worlds? Then, realms like Arendelle or Agrabah do still have their own weather and conditions, just like in the ex-Fairy Tale Land: consider them as real countries with their peculiar weather.