Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25517595-20150330011154/@comment-25926288-20150331010054

GothicNarcissus wrote: There is one thing that bothers me about this episode, as well as the Apprentice's apparences in S4A: if he can get people from the Enchanted Forest to the virtually unreachable LWM so easily, why the hell didn't he just drop Rumple down a portal so he could follow Baelfire?

I mean, okay, he doesn't help villains (except Ingrid for whatever reason). But if he can predict the future and is invested in the common good, then why didn't he give Rumple what he wanted? How much collateral damage would have been spared to the WHOLE Enchanted Forest if he had just transported Rumple to the LWM without question? It doesn't make much sense that he just sit back and watched mutiple lives getting destroyed for several decades in a row when he coukd have prevented all of that. Magic is a plot device and apparently works when the plot demands. We know Rumple wouldn't take it, but someone as powerful as the Apprentice/Sorcerer could have hatted him or tossed him down a hole a long time ago, but 99% of the plot happens because of Rumple. I can understand that, but they don't try to explain why, just introduce more ways that makes Regina and Rumple at times look completely idiotic and Blue and the Apprentice as really shady individuals.