I just don’t see Rumpel as ever being the character with love, joy, happiness, comfort or any of those things. It just seems so out of character and what would that mean for the show. I don’t think they are ever going to want the character to be that.
Well, that would be the happy ending which is 6 years from now? It’s the journey in getting there to that happy ending. I guess we’d all rather see the tortured souls every week on the way there …