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I thought the winter finale was really good but it left me a little confused. Last season Rumple almost died from the darkness consuming his heart and for this reason the apprentice removed the darkness from rumple. Emma took in this darkness and from the start of this adventure the goal was to destroy the darkness! Now that Excalibur was whole hook sucked all the darkness into the sword/himself and he sacrificed himself to destroy the darkness for good. This should have been the ending but Rumple channeled the darkness creating another dagger and making him the dark one once again? How is this possible? Wasn't Rumple too weak to have the darkness? Is'nt this the reason we took this journey to Camelot in the first place? Now he is the dark one again, was his heart restored to a healthy heart when he became a hero or when he was in that coma? Can he now be the dark one for centuries again? Also if the dagger exisits was excalibur returned to the stone in the enchanted forest? If not and the stord was destroyed, it the darkness completely undestroyable? Excalibur was the only was to destroy the darkness but this doesn't seem like a possibility anymore? 