I also don’t think its fits with the previously established way the dagger works and that the memory potion is a poor excuse/MacGuffin. It’s shoddy writing all around. It also recasts the Rumple/Bae dynamic quite a bit, IMO. Rumple walked away from his darker instincts by not killing Beowulf. He proved that he had it in him to fight the call of darkness. And then Bae pushed him over the edge both by ordering him to kill Beowulf and needing to be saved from the dagger’s power. Again, very in line with Rumple’s character, not so much with Bae’s.
Right, but again, the character moving forward wasn’t changed bc of the reset memory potion. So are you saying that in THAT moment, it was OOC for Bae to do that? Had the show established when Bae was younger that he was vehemently as against magic as he was as he got older? We saw in this flashback that he didn’t think Rumple needed it, but he wasn’t as emphatic about it as he was as he got older. He just thought his father didn’t need it as opposed to thinking his father was a bad person bc he used it. So did Bae establish this hatred for magic and a complete unwillingness to be tempted or entertain the idea of using magic before this flashback? Was he super super against it to the point that he wouldn’t use it even if he felt Beowulf was a danger to keep alive? I’m not sure that had been established in Bae’s character yet and we know the future Bae character isn’t affected bc of the reset. So I still don’t get that it’s OOC unless it was shown that Bae vehemently was against it when he was younger before this flashback occurred and therefore would never have been tempted to use it. Wasn’t this the first time he had magic to wield in the first place? Wouldn’t it be conceivable that someone who is against something without trying it, could be more accepting of it, or susceptible once they finally do? It would make some sense if this was his first taste of wielding magic as a child to potentially make a mistake.
In regards to the Rumple-Bae dynamic in the future, yup it definitely changes things. That is true. You can definitely say that Bae may have caused Rumple to go back down a dark path that he showed he was clearly capable of moving away from. So yup, that changed. But that’s not my argument. My argument is whether or not it was OOC and to me, it seems people are looking at older Bae and how he felt about magic and saying that Bae would never have done this. But at that time in Bae’s life, Rumple being the DO was relatively brand new and he had never even really seen magic or at least been directly in contact with it. And to my knowledge, wasn’t he only vehemently against it as he got older later on…as we know, his mild distaste for it turned into hatred mainly bc of him thinking Rumple killed Beowulf.
Am I completely off base here? Again, if you can establish that there was flashback before this time that showed Bae really really against magic (not just telling Rumple that you don’t need it), then yup, OOC. Otherwise I just don’t think I agree.