“No, I’m really hoping he doesn’t [do the right thing],” he said. “As soon as he starts to do the right thing, the character’s finished. That’s the reason he is who he is and that’s the reason I think people like him because he is his own person.”
Rumple doing the right thing was sacrificing himself for his entire family, to give his son a second chance at happiness. That should have been his character’s ending, rather than slowly making him descend ever more into the darkness. If Rumple is never going to do the right thing again, then what did Baelfire give his life for? While I agree that Rumple continuing to do the wrong thing is part of his characterization, I still want Rumple’s final act to be redemptive. I always believed Rumple’s idea of a happy ending was having his son back, but that already came and went. Henry seems to think Rumple is currently experiencing his happy ending being married to Belle, but Rumple seems as unhappy as ever. He wants to be free of the dagger after what Zelena did to him, but he can’t confide that to his wife for some reason. I just hope that in the very end, Rumple realizes he doesn’t need to hold onto power at all, but that he could be free if he’d just allow Belle’s kiss to free him of his dark one curse.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy