Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180206195120/@comment-25926288-20180305181317

I’ll sidestep the theories and headcanons. I think what it pretty much boils down to is: They could have used (another) centric to connect the dots. It’s like that with Tremaine. We can see Rapunzel, but not how she became a snobby person who hates Drizzy with a passion. (Of course, we can put two and two together.)

Fiona just needed a better reason to be evil towards Rumple than “I thought you’d hate me.” It would have been better for her to be obsessed with making giving him a happy ending over his current affairs. Hades had a bit of a Rumple (4B) issue where he had changing plans. But I charge that to oversight issues which also happened in 6 as it seems like there are two opposing thoughts on the writers’ team.