Does anyone believe that Rumple will live beyond the season finale?
I’m 51/49 on the matter, and am leaning slightly towards Rumple actually dying in the S4 finale. On the one hand, I agree there are potentially many reasons why Rumple’s character may be finished by the end of S4. There are many rumors about RC being fed up with how MRJ was treated, about RC disliking the direction the show has gone, and disliking the concept of Rumple getting a happy ending or deserving Belle. There’s also the way the story now is playing out and how the character is being written now as increasingly nihilistic. I think RC is a big enough actor that ABC would release RC from his 5-year contract early if he really wanted out. On the other hand, B&B is a really popular Disney cartoon, and A&E might not want to disappoint fan-girls of the Rumple and Belle pairing. So maybe the writers could find a way to wrap up Rumple’s story without necessarily killing him off, and instead write him as having his curse undone by TLK and then packing him off to A Land Without Magic so as to avoid the temptation that magic in SB has to offer. Maybe Rumple’s happy ending could simply be starting over again away from all the crazy once his dark one curse is broken.
"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