Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24271102-20150612100132/@comment-26033121-20160210191037

I have always loved Rumbelle at least, I do when they are written with some promise and in-character, particularly from S1-S3A. However, Rumple's main storyline was Baelfire, his son, not Belle. The show should have ended with his sacrifice in 3x11. It seems like, now that Baelfire is gone, and with the very plot versus character driven storytelling, they are trying to keep him morally ambiguous and failing because they won't slow down, as they did back in S1-S3A, and because they no longer know how to keep him sympathetic until ultimately redeeming him for good at the end of the series. That's