Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20180519054612/@comment-25926288-20180520005947

8Rob wrote: I'm just trying to figure out how this all works with what the show established about the Dark One Curse in season 5A: The Dark One Vault, the Darkness being its own entity, the soul tethering thing, etc...

Because I feel they just circumvented their own rules about the Dark One curse, and took the easy path. Just like they did with Henry/Emma's TLK in 6x22 It's pretty consistent with how they set up stuff.

The Darknesses only way of being destroyed (for good) was purifying a DO (aka Emma's) and kiling the DO (Hook). Weaver just combined the two.

It's playing fast and loose, but hey, they had a vial of magic that they could have just splashed on W!Rumple.