Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20180306160338/@comment-25926288-20180506000448

JennaMae wrote: Saintfighteraqua wrote: This way we might get to see Rumple both rewarded and punished. A lot of people aren't happy that Rumple got away with everything and if he gets redemption + the reward of being in heaven with Belle, it might make sense for some people to have another version of him to be destroyed and get what he deserves. But he's still "Wish Rumple" without the 7 seasons of development the audience saw with the original Rumple. He didn't even have anything to do with this season alone. OG Rumple still exists and he's the one people care about, whether they like him or hate him. If the writers had built OG Rumple to be the final villain of the series, that would've been fitting and awesome. But they wrote him differently in the last 2 seasons and now it's like they regret that and are taking unnecessary steps to try and have it all.

This is the same reason why it's weird for them to say that Rumple and Wish Hook will have a grand scene in the finale and it's a culmination of "6 seasons of their relationship" but it really isn't because of all of the things that happened between OG Rumple & Hook in the 5 seasons Wish Hook wasn't a part of. I think it about the concept. WRumple gives us a way to see a fully evil Rumple and Nook gives us Hook without Emma but a daughter. It's conceptually to see Hook and Rumple be friends as more of a "What if".

Adam and Eddy always did this is you notice how often they strived to bring back the Evil Queen from season 4 onwards.