She only stopped seeing or hearing HeadRumple when the lure of darkness was at its strongest (i.e. when she was with Hook in the field full of prink flowers of DOOM).
Oh, that’s an interesting idea! Though I think that’s giving the writers too much credit.
So re: deleted scenes/canon. Does canon means that a scene happened, but we didn’t see it, whereas non canon is it didn’t happen and has essentially the same status as a blooper or alternative ending — is that correct?
If so, then there is an argument to be made that demoting the deleted scenes to non-canon status alters the overall value of the product (DVDs) — after all, a deleted scene that counts as an additional part of the show that you didn’t see would be more valuable than the cinematic equivalent of a doodle. Someone should complain and demand their money back.
Anyway, if ever I suspected that Adam and Eddy might actually have artistic integrity — or a consistent vision for OUAT — I am now relieved to be disabused of this notion.