Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26179634-20141219181118/@comment-6252544-20141219183845

I know! I felt that rumple killing Zelena was totally uncalled for. Best case scenario for rumple: Bae brings him back, rumple absorbs him and gets to keep the dagger. Zelena isn't in their and Bae would still most likely die, unless rumple found a way to save him, which I'm guessing is unlikely. If you think about it, rumple could have probably save bae's life if Zelena got what she wanted. She would have cast the curse, and killing snows mother would have meant she, Emma, or Henry were never born (also Regina but that's sad to think about). Peter Pan would have found someone else with the heart of the truest believer, and rumple would have no undoing by Henry. He wouldn't had to have sacrificed himself to save the town and kill Peter Pan, and Cora would probably have still been alive because I doubt Zelena would have used her heart to cast the curse because she would have probably still been heartless. The snow queen wouldn't have arrived looking for Emma because she didn't exist, and made it so you couldn't leave there would have been no undoing of a curse and rumple could have still used his shawl to find Bae in New York, had he reintroduced magic in Storybrooke. There would also probably be a different savior. This would have worked out swimmingly for rumple if he just let Zelena win, because it's not like Zelena would have remembered her spell if she had won. She was planning on going back and killing Eva so she would be raised as Cora and Leopold's child. Her existence in Storybrooke with the spell would never have happened so she would disappear, and all we'd see was her being a princess and casting the dark curse. Hahn rumple, never thinking things through.