Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-4975807-20150106012109

DarkRobin wrote: Chameleon-Guy wrote: I don't know if he is angry at Belle, but I doubt he is gonna try to convince her he is a changed man. From the interviews, it seems Rumple wants to find the author and force him to write him a happy ending, which includes power and istant love from Belle.

Well, that's obviously not going to happen, and if that his plan then Rumple hasn't learned anything from his mistake yet, and there'll be a long way to go before they reconcile.

I am rooting for Regina's quest to find the author and gain her happy ending. Her plight earns more sympathy from me because she's worked so hard to change and even in the end, she did the right thing by letting Robin Hood go (although this decision made her miserable). So, her reason for needing the author sounds reasonable to me because of the long way she's come from because it appears no matter what she does, life gets in the way of her happiness. However, Rumplestiltskin's reason for needing the author just sounds like a quick fix because he wants to have his cake and eat it too without doing the heavy duty work of even really trying to change and fight his temptation and greed for power.

I'm not sure if I want to put faith in the author and his ability to seemingly change people's lives and give them happy endings. It is actually quite an ominous thought to think someone can play with someone's future and magically rewrite a story. I'm more realistic so my mindset is that the only one in control of my own life is me, and whatever higher power is out there, that person has no will over how my life is. I think the same for Regina and Rumplestiltskin. In Regina's continued struggle to find happiness, I believe she is struggling because who, in life, doesn't have struggles? Everyone does. In my view, that's just life and everyone has something different he or she needs to deal with. Rumplestiltskin... I doubt his forced happy ending will go well. It would be fake, I think, because it wouldn't be real if the author just rewrote his story and for Belle to suddenly forgive him for everything. There would definitely be some consequence from that.