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EW 8/11: Find Out Who's Training The Dark Swan

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  • August 11, 2015 at 12:08 pm #306983
    Corbin
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    After the Darkness consumed her in the Once Upon a Time finale, Emma is going to have a little help in becoming the new Dark One, a.k.a. the Dark Swan.

    EW has an exclusive first look photo from the upcoming season premiere, in which Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) appears to offer Emma (Jennifer Morrison) a hand in controlling her new powers. “If you’re going to be the Dark One, gotta learn from the best,” executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis coyly tease.

    Full article here: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/11/once-upon-time-season-5-emma-dark-swan-rumple

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    August 11, 2015 at 12:15 pm #306986
    RumplesGirl
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    I. Do. Not. Understand.

    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    August 11, 2015 at 12:24 pm #306987
    RumplesGirl
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    So is “Rumple” like a manifestation of the Darkness teaching and tempting Emma to succumb? That’s the only thing I can think of.

    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    August 11, 2015 at 1:59 pm #306988
    PanTheMan
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    So is “Rumple” like a manifestation of the Darkness teaching and tempting Emma to succumb? That’s the only thing I can think of.

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    That, or Emma is going crazy. I imagine dealing with the darkness inside her takes a mental strain. Losing her grip on reality probably makes her lean a little more dark sided. But I do like your idea better, RG.

    Also, Rumple went into a coma after the Apprentice removed the darkness from him. What Emma is seeing could be a piece of Rumple that is now forever intertwined with the darkness of the dagger. Only Emma can see him. Maybe once she frees herself from the dagger, this piece of Rumple will be free to, and then the real Rumple will wake up from his coma.

    August 11, 2015 at 2:08 pm #306989
    Heart of Darkness
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    So is “Rumple” like a manifestation of the Darkness teaching and tempting Emma to succumb? That’s the only thing I can think of.

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    Probably. This is from the premiere where Emma apparently isn’t the Dark One quite yet, so that would make sense.

    August 11, 2015 at 3:22 pm #306990
    Gaultheria
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    August 11, 2015 at 3:38 pm #306991
    TheWatcher
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    But…. hmmmmmmm. I can understand if Emma is seeing an apparition of Rump’ because she is, like, going crazy the darkness is tempting her to do bad things. But not teaching her to do bad things.

    Because wouldn’t that mean Zoso appeared to Rump when he was the dark one to teach him?

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    August 11, 2015 at 3:41 pm #306992
    WickedRegal
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    So is “Rumple” like a manifestation of the Darkness teaching and tempting Emma to succumb? That’s the only thing I can think of.

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    Satan tempted Jesus forty days and forty nights in the wilderness…..

    I can definitely see Adam and Eddy doing a similar route with Rumple and Emma.

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    August 11, 2015 at 6:19 pm #306999
    MatthewPaul
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    I’m going to assume that this Rumple is a vision of sorts that only Emma interacts with. I think this could be their way of giving Rumple plenty of screentime, while he is still in a coma. Aside from flashbacks, that is. For plot reasons, they likely don’t want Rumple waking up from his coma this early on, so we get this version of Rumple in the meantime. It’s like with Shadow Belle in Season 3A. They decided to keep Belle in Storybrooke in Season 3A to 1) enact the protection spell, 2) have one of the regulars in Storybrooke, 3) to help Ariel out. So to give Belle more screentime, they created the whole Shadow Belle plotline.

    August 11, 2015 at 6:50 pm #307000
    RumplesGirl
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    It’s like with Shadow Belle in Season 3A. They decided to keep Belle in Storybrooke in Season 3A to 1) enact the protection spell, 2) have one of the regulars in Storybrooke, 3) to help Ariel out. So to give Belle more screentime, they created the whole Shadow Belle plotline.

    Agreed. But thus far we haven’t seen Dark One! Rumple on set, at least while filming outdoors. So I guess Bobby is indoors quite a bit (when he’s not out promoting his new film)

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