Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25850402-20160525123525/@comment-25926288-20160531103840

Avatar Beta wrote: Rumple was ready to save Henry and he did. He seemed to be struggling with the prophecy and his realation to Henry. Yeah, he attempted to kill hery once in season 2, but in the end, he made the right choice. The problem is, A+E threw that dumb twist in at the end of Season 3 and despite the great begining for Rumple in season 4, they wrote him badly the rest of the way. At least 4b had the Darkness taking him over as an explanation. I'll never understand the Regina/hook/basically everyone else=not as bad as Rumple thing they've shoved down our throats since season 4. Why couldn't he just be redeemed and stay that way? I'm thinking they wanted:

1 Person to fall, 1 person to struggle when 1 other person does not.

Plus, Rumple is the series antagonist, but they messed up along the way because he's not at all "tragic" but a big jerk and I think the writers might get that and realized they they messed up.....or they think they did it perfectly and are ignoring that we the audience don't make leaps of logic as they seem to do.