Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4821842-20151114051347/@comment-5169335-20170221074429

Avatar Beta wrote: That episode was weak. I mean, every other season implied Rumple made the curse and he even said he made it at least once. Plus, it makes it sound like he spent the centuries just waiting for the "queens of Darkness" to be born. Surely there were other villains in the EF he could've recruited before them if  all he needed was bait for the Chernabog. Actually, didn't the blue fairy tell rumple about the dark curse? He couldn't have created it if he didn't know of its existence, and as HmCooper4 said, I do believe the dark curse predates Merlin. Perhaps not Reul Ghorm, but Merlin.