Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-11058666-20150826195114/@comment-1894786-20160229192456

PrettyBlackRosePirate wrote: I loved him initially, in season 1 & 2. He's a gray character, he's multi-faceted. On one hand, he's the evil and conniving dark one who is power hungry and somewhat sadistic, on the other, this nature of his is spurred by his history of loss, lovelessness and humiliation. The ones he loves, he loves crazily, but until he grows to love someone he is downright evil and sadistic in his approach.

But over the course of seasons it's getting a little repititive. Everytime he messes things up for them, tries to harm or kill someone, he stopped and exposed and thrown away, then he runs after Belle to forgive him, ultimately does some grand gesture and wins her over. But then again he reverts back to his old ways and the cycle restarts. I'm starting to get tired of it now. I loved him right up until he brutally murdered a powerless Zelena. Which ironically, led to his undoing. If he hadn't stabbed her, the time portal wouldn't have opened, Elsa wouldn't have come through, Anna never would've gotten to Storybrooke and his plans wouldn't have crashed down around him.

But he's always been described as an addict. This is what addicts do, they repeat the cycle until everyone hates them. Looks like Adam and Eddie want the viewers to feel what that's like first hand, since this is the common consensus since... well, the past two years. We're as sick of it and him as the other characters, no wonder they didn't care during 5x06.