Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20140331010917/@comment-6175354-20140401124105

Swangirl21 wrote: I can't help but blame the writers for bending to the fans' peer pressure and killing off Neal. Peer pressure.... since, when have the writer buckled into that?

Neal was always intended to die, it was just a matter of when. Rumplestiltskin needed to pay the price, for creating the Dark Curse. He destroyed countless lives, in the name of his son.