Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-201.24.102.123-20130628213059/@comment-4839682-20130628220632

Immediately after saying he has a "complicated relationship" with Granny in "Into the Deep", Gold says that it's true about pretty much everyone in town. That's really not evidence for a deeper connection.

Besides, the Dark One is known, very known. Why would Granny refer to him as a "wizard"? Seems more likely to me she'd just call him by his name, or "the Dark One". Not impossible, of course, but still.