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Gideon's plan lacks the smoothness of the narrative flow that it should. Akin to Emma's reign as DO.

First, I firmly believe that the writers do actually have a plan for the season. Some may disagree but they are not on the side of evidence and statements and are just being cynical for cynicism's sake.

Gideon first appears and wants to kill Emma to use her power to save the Dark Realm. Gideon then continues this path with Rumple assisting him. Gideon then sends Hook away because he has a plan. Gideon then tricks Emma to free the Black Fairy due to him being controlled.

Let's pause there. Adam and Eddy did The first and last sentence. So, I do believe that the idea was Gideon was compromised from the beginning. However, the second instance makes it appear that the first and second sentence have Gideon being compromised in his plan (Doing evil for Good), but the last two makes it appears that Gideon was always on this plan to free Black. The acting doesn't portray that. It's similar to how Marian was always Zelena. The actress gave no hint with her performance which then conveys that it was not told to her.

I'm not going to argue "You've gotta have suspension of disbelief", when everyone knows that if there's something up, it's suppose to be made known to the audience as quickly as possible. It's seen within episodes as well. I'll use Eric/Jafar in 6x15. Eric was normal, but we quickly questioned him, then we seriously knew he couldn't be Eric, then it was revealed to not be him. Once with Gideon had episodes to slowly transition, but they didn't really do that. One of the four episode reveals his real plan, but even so like 95% of his screentime gives no hint at him having any other plan.