Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4821842-20151114051347/@comment-1867880-20170221104444

Arctucrus wrote: CadoDoan wrote: Farerb wrote: Watching 1x22 again and Rumple specifically said that he created the curse. It is just another retconing and we do is making excuses for the show. Because he created it lol. Think like this. A carpenter takes some planks from wholesaler. But in the end, it is carpenter who creates a table, chair or whatever. I don't know why everyone complains about that  Create is different from manufacture. I would say that Regina manufactured the Curse, while Rumple just got the plans to it from whoever created it and put it there to be protected by the Chernabog and the other stuff.

Still retcons Rumple having done anything beyond snatch it, though. Oh well. I don't see it as a retcon at all, not anymore than any flashback is techinically retroactive continuity. From the moment the Blue Fairy told Rumplestiltskin about the curse, I immediately imagined that the way he got his hands on the curse was in a similar manner portrayed in "Darkness on the Edge of Town." But I do believe he did more than merely "snatch it," since it was he who wove Snow and Charming's true love into the curse, so that Emma could break it; that's not a general quality of the curse, as Gold mentions in "Going Home" when describing Pan's curse.