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I liked them as a couple, but even I felt season 4 effectively destroyed it. I get this nagging feeling the writers are going to try pin all the crap Rumple did this season and past one is on the Dark One darkness corrupting him. That was the feeling I got when the Dark One darkness was suddenly an entity that tried to destroy everything in the past and that it doesn't die with the host, but rather takes control of it when the heart dies. To me it had all the classic making of sloppy plot device to absolve Gold of his crimes. I hope it is not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it went down that way. I can just hear Belle saying it was the Dark One not Rumple that hurt her. Again I don't want that, but I can easily see them going that way.