Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4772791-20131212224759/@comment-11464223-20131213032107

There's no confirmation yet that Rebecca Mader is playing Cruella de Vil, assuming that's who you are referring to, and as far as Rebecca Mader's character being Rumplestiltskin's mother goes...it would have to be really really really well done for it to come out good, because it's a huge risk repeating the whole evil-parent thing again. I know that the tree is supposed to expand somehow, but I certainly hope it's not by making Rumplestiltskin's mother, for example, another villain. At this point it would be a lot better if she was a nobody who died in childbirth, or left the family for whatever reason, and lived a normal life, and died at a normal age, in my opinion.

I hope the tree expands sideways, that is, by giving people siblings. The whole evil-parent thing is getting old. They need to shake things up a bit.