Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-30890500-20161229204421/@comment-25926288-20161229205051

If he will be good at the end of this show, then I think he'll be good at the end of this season.

Once has a sliding scale of "goodness" which stretches the suspension of disbelief (Basically in real life, you wouldn't be hanging around someone who murdered your parents and tried to kill you on mulitple occassions and made your life terrible). Zelena shows that she's simply complacent until spurred to be evil and I think Rumple will be the same way. Rumple already made the change in season 3, then 5, but they keep cycling him in the hamster wheel of "development".

Rumple being good or at least compacent would help the show more than not. They simply wrote themselves into a whole they should fix. He's too powerful to be all in on the heroes side, but him being on evil's side is redundant especially when they make him do crazy, stupid things like side with the woman who "killed" his son (in season 4). He even teamed up with this terrible father (but he actually planned to betray him at least).