Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1333438-20150514015210/@comment-25926288-20150514124515

Avatar Beta wrote: I agree with the OP. Rumple was written very strangely this season. The first season, he was villainous enough. Season 2 had him become more of an anti-hero thanks to Belle and Neal and he was doing his best last season to be heroic until the finale. Even then, wanting to kill the person who orchistrated the death of your only child and put you through torture is hardly unreasonable. Then this season...wow. They make his first scene incredibly touching, he finds Merlin's hat and it goes downhill. Everything bad about him gets exaggerated from the aforementioned "take over the world" garbage to his rather nonsensical interractions with Ingrid. Even his flashback with Anna depicted him as more vicious than usual. I think it was likely just for the newbies. Actually alot of characters were wriiten strangely. Regina was the voice of reason against a horny, lusty, and drunk Robin. Rumple was just flat out evil. Emma was spastic: I may like her friendship with Regina, but Emma really went overboard with it. Emma also had the contrived Elsa-itis, randomly losing control of powers she had used for two seasons prior. Snow was written as this selfish nutjob with a secret not at all foreshadowed.

With the story revolving mostly against those four and having those four get written strangely for the plot makes it all look weird. It's also like 4a character stuff barely traveled over to 4b. Emma doesn't care about Ingrid apparently. Snow accepting Emma as she is turns into oh no she's going dark! Zelena = Marian and soap opera drama. Rumple's plan makes almost no sense given what we know now.