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@AntBee wrote:
That’s a wonderful idea that I hadn’t thought of. While I want Belle to continue to be a strong and compassionate character, I just feel that it would just be unlikely all things considered even on this show, if she suddenly had the idea on her own to run the library.
She wouldn’t even know there was a library in town yet. But I can see her telling Rumple that she doesn’t just want to sit around his house all day, she wants to go out and explore this new world and learn all about it, so he suggests that she’d love to visit the library and gives her a key.
@PriceofMagic wrote:
I think people can sympathise with Rumple more because all of his actions have stemmed from the basic parental instinct to protect his child. He became the dark one in order to protect Baelfire and it’s not exactly clear whether the dark one curse is just power or a separate entity in itself that latches on to hosts like a parasite, influencing its host’s behaviour and actions. Rumple started out wanting to use the power for good but got corrupted in the process. What if the dark one curse is like a little voice in Rumple’s head. He sees the soldiers about to take Baelfire, the dark one curse tells him he needs to kill them all to protect Bae. He sees Bae injured by the cart, the dark one curse tells him the man with the cart did it deliberately and needs to be punished. Belle’s love is a threat to the dark one curse, the dark one curse tells Rumple that Belle doesn’t really love him and it’s all a trick.
That’s an interesting idea about how his curse works. I really like that concept. Also, I agree that Rumple is more sympathetic than Regina, just judging by their motivations. I may soften more towards Regina the more we see of her backstory, but as of right now, I see her as harder to redeem than Rumple is. He made a mistake because he was desperate to protect his son, and ended up being consumed by an all powerful curse against which no mortal soul stood a chance. That’s not to say that I don’t think he needs redemption, because quite obviously he’s done bad stuff, and it seems he hasn’t learned his lesson yet, (I wanted to slap him when he brought back magic), so he’s got some work to do. I want to see him struggle his way towards redemption gradually over the course of the show, but eventually, I really want him to get there, having seen where he originally came from. I’m not feeling that on the same level for Regina…yet.
@Lil’Red wrote:
Why is Rumple using his cane in all the new pictures? I thought, with restored magic, his limp would be healed again…did it not work for him (unlikely!) or is he pretending it didn’t?
I was wondering that too. What I’ve come up with is that the breaking of the curse affected people mentally, but not physically, so whatever form they were in SB right before the curse was broken is how they stay. So Rumple still has a limp, Jiminy is still human, as are the fairies, and Pinocchio is most likely still a lump of wood. And we don’t yet know exactly how magic will work in SB and how it can be acquired. Just because it came back, doesn’t mean that everyone who used to have it automatically gets back those same exact powers, so we don’t know that Rumple has reverted to being his old magical self completely, or even partially, yet.