I don’t think Rumple was ever set up to be all-knowing. More-knowing, yes. (Is that a thing? It is now. 🙂 ) But not all-knowing. He did something everything does … he made an assumption. And it was wrong.
It’s nice to have somebody saying that folks (beyond Neal and Belle) are happy Rumple’s not dead, and that no one wanted him to die. Because I did think everyone (beyond Neal and Belle) seemed a little … oh, well … about it.
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas