This is not a happy storyline for me, I won’t lie. Yes, it re-centers Rumple’s story back on the idea of him being a father who would do anything for his child, but this is soooooo squicky. This baby was conceived through wonky-consent (Belle, not knowing that Rumple was the Dark One again and is still lying to her) and now it looks like Belle’s first born child is being threatened by Hades, which is rather unfair to both mother and child. To say nothing of the fact that it reeks of Nealfire not being enough to make his father go good, but this new baby, is.
To play Devil’s advocate, Rumple dying for Neal and Belle at the end of 3A and then him reabsorbing him to try to save his life when he was resurrected is, from my perspective, the closest to “good” we’ve seen him on the show post DO-curse yet. So I don’t think him potentially going good again because of Rumbelle baby is screwing the legacy over in that respect.
I’m guessing there’s going to be some twist with him having a “good” reason to take the curse back on. Eddy and Adam seem to be playing it that way, though they could just be happy about it because he can’t really narratively function in the story without his powers.
"Death cannot stop true love...it can only delay it awhile."