Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-26184894-20151104070350

MBrody wrote:

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:

Eskaver wrote: CTrent29 wrote: ''Belle is the nerdy librarian that knows all things magic. How? I'm certian that you actually have to read books and I'm sure Rumple didn't leave magic books lying around, but maybe he was generous to Belle.''I felt that they had went too far with Belle's book knowledge. Actually, they went too far back in Season 2, by having us believe that she had learned to read a Chinese language (and I don't know which one) just by reading a book. That was dumb. And this penchant for Belle coming up with resolutions, thanks to the library, is getting ridiculous.

In fact, the only aspects of this episode that I didn't like, were the heavy dependence on Belle's reading habit and Emma. As a villain, Emma is becoming damn dull. Jennifer Morrison's performance tends to come off as monotone sometimes. There is subtlety and there is monotone. Morrison is the latter.

And how nice that Henry is able to give Emma an excuse by insisting that she is not herself. I knew that Horowitz and Kitsis would find a way to absolve blame from Emma, the moment she allowed that entity to enter her. How cowardly of them. Now, I usually disagree with you in some ways, but you are right. They blame the entity instead of Emma, but then the same people blame Rumple when he was possessed by the same entity. Worst part ois, Emma is saying it is just her and they ignore that. Well, think of it this way.

Rumple's hurt all of them directly. He killed Milah (Hook), manipulated them into provoking Regina to enact the Curse (Snowing) and well... ruined her life (Regina). And only Hook had a brief glimpse into the man Rumple was before.

Meanwhile, they all know pre-Dark One Emma extremely well. They know she would never hurt Henry.

If your family is killed by a mental patient, you blame the killer, not the illness. But if your relative is a violent mental patient, you blame the illness, not the person.

It's a matter of perspective, and the fact that the writers did give Belle that moment where she can't believe her family would leave her in the lurch like that proves that they are looking at both points of view. I mostly agree with you, but I do think Hook should look at things from Rumplestiltskin's point of view. He knew him before he became the Dark One, and a few episodes ago he admitted that he was the villain then. It seems likely from that that Hook's feud is with the Dark One now, not with Rumplestiltskin anymore. Besides, from him or Regina, it's a tad hypocritical, as neither of them could have been saved from darkness, if someone hadn't given them a multitude of chances. I would agree with the perspective argument if Belle wasn't a loyal friend that always helps the charmings and friends. The  fact that they watched her walk out of that room knowing she was going to save gold and no one tried to help her says that they only care about themselves. Emma could have killed her and the charmings would have just blamed the darkness.