Board Thread:Show-Related Questions and Answers/@comment-27441516-20151221095526

I re-watched today to confirm I have legitimate concerns.

1) When did Rumple get Excalibur back?


 * In the opening scene of the finale, it shows Rumple and Hook together on a foggy path, meeting for whatever reason. Rumple has Excalibur, yet the last scene we are showed with him and Excalibur, he had just fought with Hook on his ship and threw it down on the floor before leaving. (Why Hook didn't just use some stupid choking power and take it back is beyond me. Which leads me to my next question.)

2) Why does Excalibur supposedly not control Hook anymore?


 * After being turned into the dark one in Camelot, Hook gets mad at Emma for concealing the fact that she had Excalibur saying she was using it to control him. She gives it to him so that she can prove she doesn't want to control him. Then, in the same scene mentioned in my 1st question, Hook says to Rumple that Excalibur can't control him anymore, which is why I guess he doesn't care that Rumple has it. (Bringing us back to my 1st question...) But where in any episode is the explanation as to why/how it doesn't control him anymore?

3) When Emma discovers Rumple has become "The Ultimate Dark One" and threatens to tell Belle - why the EFF doesn't Rumple just do something magical to stop her???


 * He has ALL of the magic now, so he could easily just make her forget, or something like that! Whip out a freaking dream catcher. Use the choak hold and threaten HER! Do SOMETHING!! GOD! If ANY of the bad guys actually did ANYTHING to stop the good guys, there'd be now show, I GET that. But they really need to work harder at coming up with reasons WHY certain things can't be done.

4) HOW does the daggar exist again?!


 * It became part of Excalibur. It was destroyed when the sword desintegrated after Emma stabbed Hook. Are we to assume that the spell Rumple put on it to "be a conduit" getting the power back to him also saved the end of the sword - the daggar part? This is something that may eventually be explained, or at least is something we can easily fabricate a bandaid explanation, which is more than I think can be said about the other questions I have here.

5) WHY THE EFF DOES RUMPLE GO TO THE UNDERWORLD WITH THEM?!


 * I'm sure they will have some kind of explanation like, oh he HAD to go because it was his blood that opened the portal, but REALLY? He's going to go to the underworld with Emma to help her bring back his arch enemy - who he's probably so glad to finally get rid of! - and face a crap load of his dead enemies, not knowing what could possibly happen to him there, not knowing if he could even get back! He was obviously scared to go earlier, when the dark ones marked him to be taken there; Regina was too and she said why. She's going for obvoius reasons though. Rumple is doing ALL of this just to prevent Emma from telling Belle he's the dark one, instead of just freaking using magic to prevent her from telling her. 