@charming wrote:
@A_Desperate_Soul wrote:
Jefferson deserves a gold medal for rescuing Belle. No, I’m serious. Someone give this man his reward. 😀
I can’t wait to see where the writers Belle’s her story in season 2. I was surprised to hear that she’ll be in season 2 because there were there were so many cynics who said that she was going to die in the finale. Thank all the gods in heaven they were wrong.
I think Belle and Rumpel will eventually have their happy ending. No one on the show has been able to truly separate themselves from their true love. They always find a way to see each other again. Even when one of them believes the other to be dead (Belle and Rumpel, Abigal and Frederick), they always end up meeting each other again in another life. Rumpel lost Belle in his previous life, but now he has a chance to be with her in this new life. Yes, they will have a ton of obsticals, but like I said before, no one can escape true love.
If Rumple’s happy ending is with Belle where does Bae fit into the equation? He did all of this for Bae and not Belle. He did not know she was alive until the last 15 minutes of the show. I think his happy ending originally did not involve Bae but Belle showing up changed things a bit. If it did come down to a choice between Bae or Belle and had to make only one choice who would it be??? As cruel as it maybe I believe Belle is expendable and he’d pick Bae over Belle, otherwise his whole master plan would have been for nothing.
Why should Mr. Gold be forced to choose? Most people don’t have to choose between their spouse and their child. Why can’t he have both? That’s what a happy ending means. Do you honestly think Rumpel can have a happy ending without the woman he loves? He needs them both. Having his son back in his life would be an absolute blessing. But having him without Belle would be bittersweet. It’s the same reason why he refused to cast the Dark Curse himself. He knew that in order to do it, he had to kill the thing he loved most, and sense Baelfire was missing at the time, that role was filled by Belle. But he wouldn’t stoop low enough to kill her. He’d just be creating another hole in his heart.
We clearly saw how haunted he was by the death of Belle in “Skin Deep.” So, living a life without her would not be considered a happy ending. He’d be living without his true love, and we’ve already seen the engative effects of living without someone’s true love can cause. Just ask Snow, Charming, Abigail, Frederick, and Regina. It’s almost like saying that you can have a happy ending even though your wife was savagely killed. No, you wouldn”t be able to because the death of your wife would haunt you until the day you die. So, Belle has to be a part of his happy ending, because she makes him happy. Simple.
I agree with A_Desperate_Soul, Baelfire would want his father to fall in love. Baelfire would probably view Belle as evidence that his father hadn’t completely given up on love. Belle is an example of the last remaining feelings of love and compassion that resides within Rumpel. Baelfire would be proud of that. He’d probably encourage it.
And I don’t view having Belle back in Mr. Gold’s life as a wrench in his plan. He probably views it as a bonus. He thought she had committed suicide after being mercilessly tortured by her father. He probably placed the majority of the blame on himself. So, to see her walk back into his life alive and well was a blessing. Her ghost haunted him for years, so he’s probably releaved to know that she’s been alive all this time.