Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13475854-20141208062733/@comment-25701646-20141211123101

No. I feel Rumple was more sad. The Snow Queen still seems like kind of a b***h. to me. I mean, I know she had a sad life, but she didn't have to take it out on innocent people. She didn't seem to face much of a moral struggle. Maybe she went insane from her time in the urn but, because it wasn't explored too much, we can't say how much that influenced her mental state. The Snow Queen  seems a bit selfish. Everyone deserves to be loved but that doesn't mean people should just go around brain-washing and killing to become loved. She had a brief moment of "Oh, what have I done?" but it was only because she got what she wanted. If Gerda had hated her, she would have killed the whole town. Her guilt was dependent on whether other people met her needs. Rumple struggled for about two and a half seasons with right and wrong and, when he died, it was because he finally became a hero and accepted that he had to somehow atone for what he had done. The show showed a long-lasting struggle which made his guilt convincing and his sacrifice wasn't contingent on whether other people met his needs. Of course ,now, he's just a d**k, but, at the time, he was going out as a good guy.