Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5899967-20170127112941/@comment-25926288-20170127204857

This is why (being more on topic) Rumple would lose the power and the power would just be gone forever. Doing a "reset" in the narrative/story shouldn't mean that we should continue DO shenanigans like we have for 6 seasons. You can have Once without a Dark One. Wonderland survived and all they had was Jafar and Jabber (briefly). Powerscaling, like Once does at times, trying to create a new threat could be easily dealt with by doing a "No Magic" plot, instead of adding immense magical power, immortality, and now invulnerability.

This could cause Rumple (and potentially other magical beings, not witches) to disappear, thus leaving the possibility for Robert to be a guest star.

Seems a bit too much Home Officey, but I'd choose that over DO-lite characters (which we pretty much had since....forever).