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The character of the seer undermines basically the entire plot of the show. At the beginning, Rumpel becoming a coward leads to him losing his son. The show could have stuck with that and shown how Rumpel merely misunderstood the prophecy or he caused it to happen by trying to avoid the oracle. But no. The next time he meets the seer, she tells him that no matter what he had done, he would have lost his son. So no matter what choice Rumpel had made, it all would have led to Baelfire not having a father. In the second meeting, the seer also then predicts the entire plot of the show when she talks about "someone else breaking the curse" and "someone else casting the curse." Or how a "boy will lead him to his son."

This totally takes choice away from the characters by basically saying all of this would have happened regardless of what they had done. I think at some point the seer tells him that some things are inevitable. Also, Emma an Neal's meeting is handwaved away by saying it was fate that they met. This felt like such a cop-out. Henry has also been used on this show as a plot device. Now he's just become a bigger plot device. I felt that this episode had a lot of lazy writing.