Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160328005933/@comment-28162607-20160408235901

Farerb wrote: Jordy267 wrote: Farerb wrote: I don't think Merlin will ever return, for that to happen they'll have to acknowledge that Hook is a murderer and actually deal woth it. It will be difficult for them to whitewash him and paint him as a heroic martyr. But they know that it was just the Darkness that killed Merlin. We even know that when Hook crushed the heart it was Nimue doing it. My issue isn't with Merlin coming back, I just wish they would check if his gravestone has fallen over. The darkness can't affect or not affect Hook whenever it's convenient. It either affected him, which doesn't make sense since he was all normal pre 508 or it didn't affect him, which means he's responsible for everything that he's done.

In addition, we can't apply one thing on Hook and not apply it on Rumple and vise versa. If the darkness had affected Hook and he is absolved from everything bad that he has done then so does Rumple, but people don't do that because we didn't see all the crazy people on Rumple's head. "The darkness affected him" is just an excuse to whitewash Hook, moreover, if it is so easy for the darkness to affect Hook and not Rumple or Emma, then it speaks volumes on the kind of weak man Hook really is. The difference is that Rumple committed murder to get the darkness while Hook begged Emma not to turn him into the Dark One. Also he broke free and tried to destroy the darkness forever whilst newly-heroic Rumple took it all back.

And Hook isn't whitewashed. He is shown to be the villain and in the wrong and he acknowledges it.