Re: Is the dagger a fake?

[Slurpeez]

@Phee wrote:

@slurpeez108 wrote:

Maybe I’m wrong, but it would be a surprise unless facing his mortality makes Mr. Gold desperate enough to think two muggles can take on powerful witches.

But did he expect that they’d have to take them on? The whole purpose of the Charmings finding the dagger wasn’t so they could use it to confront anyone, it was so Cora and Regina wouldn’t find it. The Charmings getting it first was meant to eliminate the threat of anyone wreaking havoc with it. It’s just that Cora and Regina were onto them, and the plan to keep the dagger out of their hands ended up being a bust.

Yes, the Charmings were supposed to find the dagger first and eliminate it as a threat. And if it hadn’t been for Snow blabbing to Regina in granny’s dinner about the dagger and choosing the side of good, then Regina and Cora never would have known Snow and Charming were looking for it too. Snow gave up her advantage of secretly knowing about the dagger when Cora and Regina didn’t know she knew.

But, really, does Mr. Gold suddenly think Snow White would be so strategic? This is the same woman who spared Regina in the EF, thinking Regina would change for the better, and then Regina cast the dark curse. Rumple knows Snow’s weakness is giving Regina second chances. Ahhhh, short-sightedness on Rumple’s part if he thought anything had changed. How could the Dark One not glimpse that happening or at least know from prior experience? He knew in the EF that Snow couldn’t resist giving Regina second chances so he should’ve known now. And why, oh why, did he cast the protection spell if not to conceal something precious like the real dagger?