Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160402095124/@comment-27060727-20160403034828

Avatar Beta wrote: JennaMae wrote: If season 6 is the last season, I predict that after they get through whatever theme they have planned for 6A with the LWC/Victorian realm/whatever, 6B will be like season 1 in terms of the present day scenes showing us Storybrooke citizens living their lives. There will still be plot and flashbacks that tie into whatever the main focus is in each episode, but there will probably be no outside villain that comes in to threaten them - I'm predicting that Rumple will be it. And whatever ultimately happens with him will be the final hurdle of the series. Him being the dark one again has been tossed aside in 5B since they're all in the UW, but when they get out, I expect it to be brought up as a problem for the heroes to deal with once again. I personally hope they go the opposite way with Rumple. He's not the only one whose backslid multiple times and he shouldn't be treated like he's pure evil when every other character, some of whom were worse than him, get whitewashed. It's the Darkness itself that should be the final enemy if anything. I definitely think that the ending of OUAT will have to do with the darkness. When news first broke of 5A being about getting rid of the it, I was confused because I always thought it'd be something that was dealt with at the end of the show. And then they pulled that thing at the end with Rumple keeping it alive and I was like lol okay, I guess it's not done after all. Lots of people are theorizing that Rumple will change for his baby, but I'm personally not sold quite yet. I mean, Neal and Belle weren't enough before. Idk. And while I do understand where you're coming from with how they've dealt with other grey-area mains like Regina and Hook, and with other recurring villains, perhaps the writers just don't have plans to redeem everyone and Rumple is destined to be the show's ultimate villain? That's a possibility. It's not a very hopeful one for his fans, but......