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Farerb wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Farerb wrote:

When Rumple said it, I don't think that they intended for the final battle to be with the black fairy I am pretty sure the intention was for the Final Battle, to be with whoever created the Dark Curse. The creative team probably decided for it to be the Black Fairy, when they saw how interested fans were, when she was namedropped in S3. Though, I feel, they should have introduced the Black Fairy, before turning Emma into the Dark One. Technically, they had the Black Fairy in season 1 in a very unnnoticeable role and a minor macguffin based player in season 3. So, a little too subtle for them, but hey, at least they didn't scream it from the rooftops like in seaon 5A where they said Underworld in like every episode. I think I'll disagree with the black fairy being on their minds in the pilot. If it had been the case, she would have been better developed (she got mention 3 times only and I'm not sure that it's the fairy that gave Snow the dust cause Snow had no idea who she was in 616 but whatever). She kind of came out of nowhere three years after she was last mentioned, she all of a sudden Rumple's mother even though he never mentioned it at all and it was never forshadowed, so in my opinion, the writers didn't plan her to be the ultimate big bad. I just think that now it's the end and she happens to be the villain so they tied her up to the pilot and the dark curse so it could be "full circle" or something like that. Well, I don't think I said anything about the pilot. XD

I'm certain they didn't have any clue about the Black Fairy until season 3. I do think the writers were sort of sideline by something (Disney related properties). I do think they intended the "ultimate darkness" would be the end of the series. That's why I do think that around season 4/5 they made the Black Fairy the creator of the Dark Curse.