Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180521040035

Yeah, yeah, they totally shifted the plot to make the Guardian something else that really looks like a retextured Savior.

In any case, I think the show hinted it enough that this was what it would take to get rid of the Darkness.

Early on, we were told that True Love’s Kiss would free Rumple of his Curse. That is true. Why? Because True Love is sacrifice. That has been thematic throughout the show. It’s not every situation or at every moment but at that moment of TLK, it’s a moment of sacrifice.

Jump ahead to Hook and Emma. We see that with Hook willing to do what was right and sacrifice himself, his revenge and his chance at a happy ending and Emma hers, the Darkness would have been defeated.

You see that no Dark One was willing to give up the power, even if they had ideas that they thought were “for the greater good”.

Weaver destroyed the Darkness by doing what the Dark One would never do (Which Hooks and Emma did do): Sacrifice themselves and their power and their happy ending unselfishly...because it’s the right thing.

Mr. Gold was close in season 3 (slightly weird retroactively), but you can see that he wasn’t doing it for anybody else but Belle and Bae. He loved them, but he wasn’t really going above and beyond.

For little questions:

Why was Wish Rumple going to kill Rumple then?

The act of Weaver doing truly pure was what destroyed the Darkness. It wasn’t the heart maneuver. The heart maneuver was part of the sacrifice but also what killed Weaver, not Wish Rumple.

Didn’t Weaver say he wasn’t the Dark One?

Weaver was DO in name only. Basically, you know during the curse that Mr. Gold and Weaver were still the Dark One, just no magic or immortality...which really makes him DO in name only when there’s no access to magic. Weaver was still connected but didn’t have any of the pluses. 