Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150618081046/@comment-5899967-20150721144127

Eskaver wrote: The problem isn't that they try something complex, it's that they do so sometimes in outlandish ways. Rumple's character (barring season 4) was very complex amnd detailed. Then, they forgot how you had to have a reason to be turning evil or do bad things. A dream doesn't cut it for Snow, unless she had it plaguing heer her entire life, then I would understand.

Emma did pretty much no evil in season 4 and I guess they saw how terrible their attempt was an decided that making her Dark One would suffice. The problem that making the DO the cause of all things wrong is like saying Rumple had no chance at all being good if the Lightest being in all the realms fails to keep it in check. Rumple was still responsible, he decided to abandon himself to the darkness, in season 4 he couldn't resist the temptation of power, also the fact that he lost his son and got controlled by Zelena was enough to drive him insane, plus for that reason he wanted to be free from the dagger, even at cost of killing his grandson's family. It was also confirmed at comic con interviews that Rumple was responsible for what he was doing. So if you ignore all that, then yeah, you can say he was a bland monodimensional villain.