Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-25926288-20150404215355

I think they messed up somewhere along the path. By they I mean the writers, if they are meant to be with each other at the end. Either Rumple will get a personality transplant or Belle would have to be darkened. It is exactly what they did with Regina. Regina is so very evil and her future partner has to flawed like a shattered mirror in order for them to balance them.

I'm glad Rumple and Belle weren't living happily ever after in this season. Why? Because no story (that couldn't be solved in like five seconds). Also, I agree with Robert Carlyle that Rumple shouldn't have it easy or a happy ending, no Rumbelle. After his sacrifice, that was the happiest it was going to be. A self-loathing man filled with darkness for hundreds of years and do I expect him to change in a few years? No! For his son who he loved ever since? Maybe! For Belle? No, not really. For Belle after being resurrected and lost his son? Certainly not! With so much wrong and addiction and darkness surrounding his life, I can't see a sudden happy, cheerful Rumple unless they filled him with all the happiness of Snow and David!