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Utter solitude wrote: I've seen it said around the interweb that they've retconned Rumple's reason for crippling himself. After finally having time to watch the episode, here's my response to that:

I just don't see it. Rumplestiltskin is a coward. He's always been a coward. His father was a coward, so being a coward is expected of him. He jumped at the chance to prove he wasn't a coward.

However, that doesn't negate his fear, or cowardice. The Seer's prophecy was a way out - self fulfilling, too! - and he took it. I'm sure a large part of him genuinely didn't want his son to be fatherless, but it doesn't negate the coward in him, nor does him being a coward, and explaining that, negate his concern for his son. it can be both! :D And both would be more acceptable and reasonable. They say that it was retconned because we saw that he mentioned both. THen in the last episode he said he did everything for his son. Then the amount of Neal mentions for him to say I didn't do it for my son is terrible. It would have been better and not as "retconny" is he said that was not the only reason why.