Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20141215200741

How many people besides me feel heartbroken of what has become of Mr. Gold and Belle?

Sure, it was forshadowed last season when it's revealed Mr. Gold gave Belle a fake dagger, then all the secret scheming regarding the hat. Although  Mr. Gold doesn't deserve pity or sympathy, but it's frustrating when they had done with the characters who are based on of the best love story of all time. I don't' know about anyone else, but I had lost interest in just about any romantic plots in all drama series. Maybe all the couples in those series tend not to have lasting relationship, even the "true love" couple do find their way back to each other, there's always a lot of messy event before they do. Before they established Rumplstiltskin as the beast in the Beauty and The Beast, I wasn't really a fan for the show, I was merely interested in how fairytales are used in the series. Then we have Mr. Gold or Rumple and Belle, the show actually started feeling fantastic!. I hoped writers better not ruin them like so many shows do with their couples, or I would most likely choose to give up on the series. But now we've come to this, and reconciliation doesn't seem possible. Even if it is, it'd weaken their characters as Belle would appear as a pwoman who has finally given up on a man she just delcared a lost cause another chance, some people would call her pathetic, and Rumple would look weak as the Dark One focused on a dark path letting emotion get in his way, while others probably don't even care what he feels.

The Queens of Darkness Arc feels the only thing that keeps my attention for the show, other than that, this show just lost a spark that made it better than all other shows I know. 