Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-11058666-20150826195114/@comment-27885419-20160229092131

I loved him initially, in season 1 & 2. He's a gray character, he's multi-faceted. On one hand, he's the evil and conniving dark one who is power hungry and somewhat sadistic, on the other, this nature of his is spurred by his history of loss, lovelessness and humiliation. The ones he loves, he loves crazily, but until he grows to love someone he is downright evil and sadistic in his approach.

But over the course of seasons it's getting a little repititive. Everytime he messes things up for them, tries to harm or kill someone, he stopped and exposed and thrown away, then he runs after Belle to forgive him, ultimately does some grand gesture and wins her over. But then again he reverts back to his old ways and the cycle restarts. I'm starting to get tired of it now.