Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4839682-20140819182912/@comment-6175354-20141024030442

Avatar Alpha wrote: I'd perfer it if an evil force within the hat was helping the rather sudden relapse along but I guess the writers just decided Rumple going back to evil was the only way they could tell the story. I doubt, that something in the Sorcerer's Hat is "possessing" Rumplestiltskin. He was lying to Belle, and killed Zelena, before he found it in Storybrooke. There is nothing wrong with the writers, having his character relapse into pure evil again. Rumplestilskin is, and has always been, a coward. He loves and craves power, more than anything else. Just like his father, he chose his weakness over his own son. He always thinks, that he can have it all.... power and love. At the end of the day, he will be left with nothing, because he refuses to change.