Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20160929050506/@comment-25375217-20161114025528

I'm really curious what their plan with Rumple is. I know they suck at following through with plans but I also know that they have to have a plan in order to fail at following through with it. Even if that plan is "wing it". A wise triangle-headed boy once said, "Willy-nilly barging is a plan of sorts."

I think that his character makes sense. This is Dark One!Rumplestiltskin with no love to support him, something we've never seen before. Even when he was separated from Bae, the possibility that Bae might still love him drove him. Now there's none of that. Belle definitely doesn't love him. His son isn't even born yet and doesn't love him. Now he's going to do anything he can to force at least one of them to love him.

So to reiterate, I believe I understand what the writers are trying to show us with Rumple. I just don't know how they plan to bring him back. His hunt for love has taken him further away from it than he even was.