Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-4975807-20150405160837

With Belle and Mr. Gold... what's hard is I'm just not a believer that true love can simply "fix" a person and all their flaws. If a person actually wants to change, and having another person's support along the way helps, then I'd say that's a good start of a better person. Mr. Gold did want to be good and change, but he stopped that as soon as you started lying to Belle all the time. Mr. Gold seems to just not know his own limits. He gives the dagger to Belle, saying he trusts her to have it, and sometime during that, he steals it back and replaces it with a fake one just so he can kill Zelena. No matter what people think... whether he absolutely needed to kill Zelena to get revenge for Neal or that Zelena had it coming... Mr. Gold putting trust in Belle with the dagger and then basically retracting that by secretly taking the dagger back is just really two faced. It's like he doesn't know how to function without lying or doing something behind the scenes that only he knows about. He had Belle's support to change into a good person, or at least I thought he did, but he has really abused Belle's trust by lying and not being honest about things.