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Jordy267 wrote: Another thing I don't like about Rumple now, possibly the reason why he's even more annoying, is he's just Mr Gold now. Even when he wasn't the Dark One in 5A they still found a clever way to include a LOT of "hello dearies teehee". Now that he's the Dark One again, somehow he's still just the quiet, boring asshole Mr Gold. Even when we get a flashback of Rumple it's just 10 seconds of him crushing the healer's heart.

And I still don't understand why in Storybrooke, the UW, Neverland etc Rumple never looks like a crocodile even though there's magic. But Emma and Nimue still looked weird in Storybrooke - what? I would agree with the first part. It's just all the callousness without the witty charm or sarcasm. When he killed the healer, you could feel the epicness, but were stuck with mean man Gold.

Emma and Nimue weren't cured, so they looked like the DO. Rumple (and Zelena)are cursed which is why there form never change. Hook, though, is an outlier.