Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20151216014048/@comment-6175354-20151217030915

Eskaver wrote: Well, there's clearly more to Malcolm's story as it is for the Joneses. Malcolm shows that he's a thinker, so he likely wasn't a drunk all his time.

A thinker? More like a delusional man-child. The guy suffered from an extreme case of Peter Pan Syndrome, and traded his son for eternal youth. He clearly was not interested in being an adult, let alone a hard working one. There is nothing more to Malcolm's story, because he is not a main character. Besides, OUaT obviously prefers Peter Pan over him.

Rumplestiltskin was a spinner, which is much lower than a blacksmith, yet was fairly accomplished.... before being branded a the village coward. While the Jones brothers rose to become fairly high-ranking Naval officers.