Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26198810-20150918232135/@comment-25926288-20150925121925

Chameleon-Guy wrote:

ChocolatEyes613 wrote:

Chameleon-Guy wrote: Yay, I'm glad he's dead (and I knew it). Sorry, but he was too much of a deus ex machina, the heroes need to figure out things by themselves, not with an instructions book. How is the Apprentice a deux ex machina, if he is generally an observer? Not in the last few episodes, he served his purpose. The Apprentice isn't deus ex machina or the meaning must have changed. A deus ex machina is someone or something that solves the problem out of nowhere. He never solved any problems and do nothing besides play his role and watch things.

That's like saying Rumple is a deus ex machina because he's powerful. Nope, now you can say magic is borderline deus ex machina on the show but Apprentice was not. The only deus ex machina in recent times were Blue when she literally pops out of nowhere to turn Snow back human and when Pinnochio needs to be saved. Also, the gauntlet was deus ex machina because is appeared out of nowhere and solved the issue in the same episode.

Apprentice was walking exposition, not deus ex machina ever.

Sad part is how no one is mourns him. Why does the self-centered CharmMillstilskin clan never shed a tear for someone that is unrelated but died. Blue dies and they don;t cry or even go to her funeral except to raid her dead body...I mean convent. Now, the Apprentice tries to save them all about twice and they pretty much ask him for help and then he provides it and dies (or passes out close to death) and they just move on.