Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

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KFC  wrote:  Just like Regina’s enslavement of Sydney will likely end in a remix of the Greg story (oh look he turns on her and deserves what painful end he gets, or so the main characters will all conclude), I suspect Rumple’s dark turn is just a remix of his slide during Belle’s Lacey days.  He came THISCLOSE to killing Henry! So is it out of the realm for him to come thatclose to sucking Emma into a hat? I don’t think so, aside from some feeling that maybe he was supposed to have had some character growth in there.  Apparently not, but no matter.

Good point. We all know Rumple is certainly capable of attempting to murder his own kin, since as you say, he nearly did at the end of season two. I just hoped he’d actually changed after he scarified himself in 3×11 for his family. I guess a “reset button” was also set on Rumple’s character with the death of his son. I guess the huge vat of black goo from which Rumple emerged should have tipped us all off that he was being reborn of the darkness.

Somehow, a new big bad will rise, and they’ll all be thrown into a huge adventure that forces them to overcome any resentment or differences, for Emma to forgive any bad behavior Hook, Rumple and Regina do, because these writers are convinced that’s what Heroes do.  They forgive the villains and if they don’t, then it is their fault the villains do more bad stuff.  In fact in a very subtle way, the writers seem to be trying to imply no good deed goes unpunished more or less, that meddling heroes cause suffering to the villains, and therefore, the heroes are the real villains.  If only they would just roll over and let the villains do what they want, when they want it!  There’d be peace.  There’d be happy endings, even for the heroes who surely don’t deserve it, because they would redefine happiness around seeing a villain content (for the moment because ultimately, the villains are the ones who are never satisfied, are they? But its that drive and ambition, that passion that makes them so much more interesting to the audience, so “rooted for” and well, as long as that’s how the writers view the fans, and the fans view the story being told, that’s what it will be).

*sigh* That does seem to be the moral of the story now (if you even want to call it that): heroes don’t sacrifice for noble ends. They’re just supposed to roll over and play dead so the villains can have their way.