They kidnapped a baby, doomed said baby with Emma’s darkness, sent said baby to another land, and kept lying to Emma to hide their shame in present day Storybrooke.
This was charcter assassination no doubt. But didn’t the author make them do this by changing the story? It’s vague, I know. But that’s sort of what I was going with so that I didn’t feel the arc was total crap. It was the manipulative author behind it all.