Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-30258394-20161018024847/@comment-24674051-20161019162317

The doormouse wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

Now, besides that, Rumple has been a controlling person with everyone he's loved. He did so with Bae, Milah, and now, Belle. None of that is out of character. Maybe they side-step a dimension, went loopy on his character progression, but it hits majority of his character.

We can break it down, if you'd like. List instances that were out of character and we can all have a discussion. I can't recall him ever being controlling with Milah - unless you count him going to the pub where she was drunkenly cavorting with a pirate, and begging her to come home for the sake of her small son? Rather the other way around - Milah mercilessly bullied and brutalised Rumple, eventually abandoning him and Bae. And I can't blame him at all for throwing her into the river in Underbrooke - her actions towards him - and especially Bae - during her lifetime were despicable. Also, I do blame Rumple for throwing Milah into the river. Yes she abandoned him and Bae, but he already had his vengence for that act when he crushed her heart. in the UW, they were quite civil with each other, and their final conversation before Hades had markedly reconciliatory tones, ending with Rumple saying "Tell him is Papa says Hi." (or words to that effect). He threw Milah into the river not because of what she did in life, but because of what he did (making the deal with Hades) in the UW.