Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-26309777-20150413203751

Eskaver wrote: Ahem, just because something is fantasy doesn't mean the character growth doesn't need to be believable. Character growth should be the strongest thing in a fantasy show anyhow. Yeah that's a good point. But i believe that writers of OUAT quite missed it. The fact that it is Sci-Fi or Fantasy does not mean that authors don't have to keep psychological reality of character.

I think they missed the matter since the beginning of season 4. They shoved us growth of some characters through the 3 seasons ( ex. Rumple, Regina), they've built up their character, explained almost every detail of their personality, to change them completely in season 4 ( i mean Rumple) .... They showed him a a beast who can love, as a man swallowed by darkness but with good hidden deep in his heart. Not the pure evil as he appears to be right now.

For me it seems that they just had no idea where to go with Rumple, so they decided to take him back to the very beginning of his character growth journey, so it would be "more interesting".

There were so many ways to show to us that Rumple is constant swallowed by darkness. That he is so addicted to his powers, so he can't let them go. But writers just took away almost all the good that was left in him and decided to take the easiest path. He was verey complex character. I loved watching him interact with others. I loved how much he cared for his son, I loved his relationship with Belle (she, btw. used to be more intelligent and interesting character than she is now... I also don't like what happened with her...). His character was so intense. But now everything good that happened b4 seems fake, or like in never happened. You loved him being evil but you also cheered for him and kept fingers crossed while his road to being good.

Now he is just one dimension, shallow character and only Robert Carlye keeps me watching this show...

The show is getting more and more stupid, but I hope that the writers will came up plot twist that will make Rumple and Belle get back together... All what happened between them to the time Rumple saved Stroybrooke from Peter Pan makes me truly cheer for them.

They both used to deserve to be with each other...

Sorry for my english...