@Midnight Dreary wrote:
But I’m confused as to why you label Rumpel a coward for running away from war (a war that asks young children to kill), but the criticize him for killing the knights at the end of episode. So, it’s ok for him to kill in a war, but not to kill for his son? Personally, being a coward or refusing to fight another man’s war doesn’t translate into being a coward. Why risk your own life for another man’s war when you can risk it for the life of your child.
Because Rumpel did not have to kill those soldiers. He could have just sent them away. He was the dark one. He had the power. The guy was on his knees and was scared Rumpel could have just sent him away. He didn’t. He killed them. That is the difference between killing them and running away during the war. And sometimes you have to stand and fight. We don’t know the situation though except that he ran, people died, and he is considered a coward for it.
I think there is no chance that Cora is Bae’s mother.
@Midnight Dreary wrote:
And of course we don’t what his motivations are. That’s been done on purpose. It’s not because the writers are confused about his character, it’s because the show needs to last longer than 1 season, so they stretch the story out. He’s hundreds of years old, has a lot history and mythology to tell, and is the creator oft he curse. So naturally, it’s going to take longer to tell his story than the Evil Queen’s or any of the other characters for that matter.
I think the writers have an idea why Rumpel is doing what he is doing, but i don’t think it is going to be any more interesting that what was between Snow and Regina. It is probably going to be because he thinks Bae is dead or something like that or just because he is the dark one and that is it. I haven’t found Rumpel’s backstory interesting so far because on one hand they try to say that even as the dark one he is still a guy who is in control of his choices, but then everyone says that he is the dark one and that is why he does all this evil.
And Emma and Snow may have done the wrong things in some cases, breaking and entering, taking the potion, but that is a long way from Rumpel’s murder and trading for babies.
And i am going to ask again. What good has Rumpel done? What is this good?