Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151007195419/@comment-25926288-20151126150951

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote:

I think Bobby takes several things into account when he plays DO Rumple. He still uses his son as inspiraton for the voice and such, which is probably why I found that "Hi?" so adorable, plus it sort of shows inner Rumple still being a child at heart and Rumple (and even Mr. Gold) throw temper tantrums at points in their life. Then again, Rumple is the son of Peter Pan.

I value JMO for doing research and stuff, but I feel that it was partially in vain. I think JMO took serious about becoming a villain, but the writers took it for laughs and jokes. Colin is simply doing pirate Hook with a little Rumple flair, which is probably some mental breakdown for Hook as he's becoming the thing that he hated the most. To each, their own way. Interesting that you say, JMo's research was done in vain. I think, the Dark Swan was nothing more than her vanity project. She was taking herself so seriously, that her performance translated as unintentionally funny. She is a good actress, but she has made this mistake in the past.

I love that Bobby used his young son, as inspiration for Rumplestiltskin. Playing the character as a giant man-child, is probably what influenced the writers to make Peter Pan his father. Colin is absolutely just playing pirate Hook, having a psychotic break. That he is spoofing Rumplestiltskin, makes perfect sense. However, neither one of them,  takes themselves too seriously. They are just having fun, by giving an over the top performance. The show took a slight change from the beginning. JMO is the lead actress (well character wise) of the show. She is the main character and it's best that she ups her game for any part she plays in the show. She should always try to improve where it needs to be done.

I think it's partially erroneous that say that Bobby and Colin don't try. They do. They don't purposefully just do fun stuff and such. I'll give an example. I think Rebecca is usually described as a mediocre actress, but she thrives at playing Zelena because she really knows how to chew the scenery to shreds, but she also can play the over the top crazy "crazy eyes" well. Lana as well and Bobby show they they do little manipulations and it changes greatly in their characters that make it wonderful. I think Colin does a great job, but he plays a smaller range well, like Rebecca.

But as I said their was a tone change in the show from mostly serious to mostly campy fun-fun. Many people thought Bobby was so done with the show in like season 4. I would say that the Once show took a big jump to campy fun from season 3. Season 4 is like the perfect example. Ingrid was a serious villain. Rumple was serious. They interacted seriously and you might even get chills from their performances. But everything else around them was silly. The Spell of SS was silly. You had walking, talking Disney characters. Rumple was playing with Mickey's hat. And much, much more.

I think JMO simply overprepared for a "serious, dark performance" as the main character actually complexingly turns dark, when Once was only like that for the first season and trailed off sense. So, she didn't need to do all of that, but I still value that she gave an effort, especially when she has to be amongst the other villians of the show.

I took Dark Swan to be serious, but the writers didn't write her how she was acting...or rather JMO acted Emma a tad higher than the writing around her character.