Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1333438-20150514015210/@comment-1333438-20150522044015

Eskaver wrote: GL089 wrote: I got feeling the darkness suddenly being alive crap was a sad attempt of a plot device to justify Gold should get another chance and them trying to pin everything that happened this season on the darkness. I hope not because it negates a lot of what makes Gold/Rumple a great character. Most saw the Darkness as an entity. We see it entering him when he killed Zoso. (Look hard because of the lighting.) It is more like a mutual benefit. The Darkness is tethered to the dagger and grants the immense power of thr Darkness and the Immortality and invulnerabililty as well. As a result, the host's darkness is highlighted (Think of Lily.) and it doesn't make them evil, but the darkness gives them a greater potential for making bad decisions or having them turn out wrong.

I agree that if they use it to justify that it wasn't Rumple, but the curse then they did it wrong. Rumple even as a blank slate should make the same mistakes as he did before because that is just who he is and in his discussion with Emma, he does good, but then overrides it with bad. Rumple needs to learn his lesson. The Darkness makes it hard to choose right, but that isn't an excuse. It would be a bad lesson that you can fix your murderous, lying, and abusive ways via magic ex machina, when others have had to work for it. I don't find the fact that it is entity to be surprise actually. I think like you said we all had an idea it was some sort of entity like curse. I always felt like it wasn't technically alive or influenced person under the curse choices. Toward the end of this season I got the nagging feeling they were trying make the entity more like Venom symbiote from Marvel comics where it turns the host evil. After seeing how draining the darkness out of Gold's heart released him from his curse it felt like it was saying the darkness was what infected him.

At least it seemed like the curse worked like the more evil the Dark One does the darker his/her heart gets, the more control the darkness gets, and if the heart goes completely dark the host dies, giving the darkness full control of the body. No one else got that fear after seeing how freeing him from the curse instantly removed the darkness there?