Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4999250-20131118035114/@comment-5655661-20131118140612

Thing about this show is that you always have to come back (in characters past, past episodes...) to actually find a mastermind behind all those things. Mastermind behind The Curse was Rumple, but he is also kinda manipulated by Seer and Peter Pan. Now I believe that those two women who gave Rumple the magic bean are, if not masterminds, then someone working for the real Big Bad of the series, whoever that may be. Hadn't Rumple and his father went to Neverland we wouldn't have had: Rumple becoming the Dark One, Bae leaving Rumple, Rumple making the Curse, Regina casting the Curse, Bae meeting Emma, Emma giving birth to Henry.