Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-5205908-20150119183608

Hmcooper4 wrote: Good point.

And I don't think you could ever get Gold to be a good, respectable person so long as he is also the Dark One. I think the end result of Gold trying to be good would be a personality division, where the good person loses any control over the evil person. Ultimately, in Rumples case, the Dark one will always win, so long as Rumple is Dark one. In my opinion, before Mr.Gold gave Belle a fake dagger and lied about his knowledge of Ingrid, Elsa and Anna he was a respectable person, not good, but the most respectable character on the show. Whatever you don't like about him at least he's always honest in what you get or lose in associations with him. Then marrying the woman he loves somehow makes him worse then ever. From what I've heard the showrunners explain that because he did the right thing and die for it, the result being him returning to life, loses his son in the process and turn into a slave of the wicked witch, which fuels his motivation in getting freed from the dagger. Still. the entire first half of the season 4 did a lot damage to the respectabliity his character built since the beginning of the series, and I have no idea which direction they want to take him, expect he's likley still trying to break free from the dagger.