Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20160203031256/@comment-26159109-20160423180357

Lady Junky wrote: Farerb wrote: Belle sleeping or babysitting. Great character development from OUAT's master storytellers. So, since they are so bad at writing Belle character, how they should have explain her necessary absence? :)

It wouldn't have been so bad if they did something with her character when the actress was available. I just feel like Belle will get her episode per arc where she gets to shine and then go back to be a glorified extra that only sleeps or babysit or be the exposition girl or be a plot device for Rumple, and it happened ever since the character was introduced on the show. I like Belle, I think she's one of the few characters that managed to remain likeable, but can't she have something more than what she gets.