Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35659464-20181215100347/@comment-5635908-20181215221926

RedGlasses20 wrote: The first of Season 5 was messy. However, I think one of the biggest mistakes that the OUAT writers made was to make Rumple returning to his evil ways for Seasons 4-6. He could have been a redeemmed ally of the heroes sooner with his first redemption in Season 3 but no. While I have no idea on what to do to change his evil behavior in season 5 and 6, I do have something for his behavior in seasons 4. For season 4, he would still be a villain during the Frozen arc until Smash the Mirror. When Belle finds the Sorcerer's Hat and begins to realize that he lied to her and later When Rumple was starting to rip Hook's heart out, Belle makes come him to his senses by asking him would Baelfire want this. Rumple would then stops his plans to separate himself from the dagger and gets lock up in sheriff's office until Heroes and Villains when he escaped and reveals that Marian was Zelena in disguise. In anger, Regina would throw Zelena across the town line and banished her from Storybrooke which would result in Zelena being the main antagonist of the Queens of Darkness arc while Rumple takes Regina's role as the spy until he decided to official help them to save himself from the darkness.

P.S. I do have an idea for what the writer could have done with Gideon's role in season 6. If anybody wants to hear it. Fire away.