Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26347158-20150419103813/@comment-25926288-20150503120529

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: WhatTheEvenBelle wrote: Don't really have much else to say except for everyone to please stop hating on Belle since she is like the most adorable character in OUaT, and "Skin Deep" is easily the best written episode in the shows history. Thanks. xx Regardless of Skin Deep being a good episode or not, Belle is one of the most useless characters now. Her only purpose has been being Romple's love interest, and that is it. She never has a storyline that did not involve him, in one way or another. For goodness sake.... Emilie de Ravin was only put on contract, because of the Rumbelle fanbase. Uselessness doesn't mean that they would be killed off. Emile de Ravin was put on a contract due to the audience, not just the Rumbelle fanbase. Remember, the general audience is bigger than the fandom.

I think that Hook is useless since most of his scenes are him standing in view with little to no words. I would forget that Hook and Emma are together if they didn't kiss so often. In each of the romances, they have a prop character that really has the same role of submissive cheerleader.

Snow has Charming who's fairly submissive (especially when Snow keeps blaming "we" instead of "I") and gives her motivation.

Rumple has the (for the most part and written that way) doormat/ submissive Belle and she's his only cheerleader.

Emma has Killian, who's "like a puppy dog" which is noted on the show and is her motivaional person quite often.

Regina has Robin, who is weaker in personality than Regina, and who only sees his "bold and audacious" queen.

This is why I always say that Snow-Emma-Rumple-Regina are the core cast because the stroy does reveolve around them, even the secondary main characters.