Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-26159109-20151106224647

Lady Junky wrote: Belle was as important as Merida in the flashbacks. In present day, she is definitelly more important than Rumple; they clearly wanted to show more about her feelings with this situation, more about her opinion. What she felt at that time, facing this coward Rumple for the first time. It doesn't change the fact that the flashbacks were about Merida, not Belle. I would even say that she was really unnecessary there and completely forced. It begins with them taking her to free the prisoners and continue with Merida kidnapping her instead of someone more competent like I don't know... Merlin, the person Merida actually saw doing magic. You could replace Belle with anyone else and it wouldn't have changed anything!

As for the present day, yeah they've shown her feelings, it doesn't change the fact that the main focus of the present storyline was on Rumple (and a mushroom).