It will be interesting to see what they do with Rumple (and all of the characters for that matter). I love Rumple – he is my favorite character – and I am one of his biggest supporters in agreeing that that I think he was a well intentioned person who unwillingly becamed cursed because he didn’t truely understand what he was getting himself into when he tried to save Bae from the Ogre Wars. I don’t believe he realized he was killing a human when he stabbed Zoso and was horrified when he realized he had. I think he did think he was being tricked by Belle and, although his behavior was not acceptable, I think it was understandable given his situation and his emotional state. BUT – I am guessing that OUaT is going to be an extremely successful show which will hopefully mean many happy seasons for all of us fans. That also means that there is no way they can have Rumple be strictly a “misunderstood but lovable” evil guy throughout the entire series – at some point they are going to have to drop a bomb on all of us Rumple fans, but I still think that when all is said and done he will end up redeeming himself in the end. Because if not, it will have been a horrendous waste of really great suits and perfectly good leather pants.