Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5817180-20150802105636/@comment-24674051-20150804153719

With Cora, I will chalk that up to lack of Knowledge. What did she REALLY know about the dark one, other than needing the dagger to obtain it's power? I think she was just guessing without any real knowledge. Although, I guess in a sense that the dark cloud thing could be considered the darkness "boiling away into the air", just not as you would expect based on that description.

As for True Love breaking the curse, we saw in Skin Deep that Belle's TLK was having an effect on Rumple, and Rumple broke it off. His reasoning matches what we know, in that he chose power over Belle. But it could very well be that breaking the curse just releases the person from the darkness, as has been said. That would NOT be a good thing, particularly for the person breaking the curse, as they would become the first target.

TLK will not destory the Darkness itself though, and that is not really a curse. It's going to take something else to destroy the darkness.

As for Hook and Emma, I think they are currently TL, and I think Emma will do as Rumple did and erect barriers to prevent TLK from breaking the curse. And we all know how well Emma does at building walls.