Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31592902-20170630182255/@comment-6175354-20170713154714

Eskaver wrote: Since Rumple was kept as back-up villain, Rumple also got worse and abusive (though the writers would say "close to crossing the line"). Ha.... the writers can say whatever they want, about only coming close to crossing the line. They way they wrote the relationship, made Belle seem like she suffered from battered-wife syndrome. The good thing about Emilie de Ravin not being a regular anymore, is that Rumplestiltskin is now free to be his terrible self.