Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20180207153846/@comment-25536775-20180217170903

Aine1989 wrote: DracoWombat wrote: Aine1989 wrote: What about 4x22? I mean make some changes to how it ends and it could work as a finale. Then the entire storyline for 4B, centered around Emma's darkness, becomes pointless, since we don't get to see it. Plus, it would have been inconclusive for Rumpel's arc as well as Belle's. Well it could have been a story about how Emma, and heroes in general, cannot be corrupted.

Rumple gets comeuppance for his crimes by being thrown over the town line without his maigc, Belle learns that there was no man behind the beast. It's a WIP but.... ...That's not what OUaT is about. The show's morality may have become gradually more black and white as the network Disneyfied it, but Once still makes it clear that everyone's capable of good and evil given the circumstances around them. What kind of twisted message is "Heroes are always good and pure and never ever fall into darkness ever"?

Rumpel ended 4x22 without us knowing if he died or went in a coma. That... really doesn't provide a good ending for one of the show's central characters. He was banished in 4x10, not 4x22. And Belle still has no arc, she just pretty much floated around in 4B because the writers didn't quite know what to do with her outside of Rumbelle.