@Vasalisa wrote:
Yes–It’s too bad they didn’t have psychotherapy as an option back in FTL!
I would argue that Zoso hand-picked Rumpel to take over the Dark Curse when he was ready to give it up. Remember, Zoso posed as an old beggar on the road, and Rumple gave him some money and later food. To my eyes, those are demonstrations of a good and generous person (I mean, Rumpel). Zoso could have handed it off to any number of people who had enslaved him—I’m sure they would have loved that power for themselves, but he didn’t. Zoso picked someone who was reasonably good to begin with, who he thought could handle it, who could bring some balance to the Dark Curse … Even when he was talking it over with Bae, Rumpel said something like : “Bae, can you imagine me with that power? I could use it for good! I could save all the kids from the Ogre War, not just you, Bae. I could finally redeem myself.” His intentions were good, even if he didn’t quite know what he was getting into. Over the centuries, he’s made the best of a bad situation … It could have been a lot worse. We could have Cora or Regina as The Dark One. Would you want to live in that world?
I just love those promo picks of The Return : The newly minted Dark One at home with his son, having a nice intimate dinner together. Again—making the best of a bad situation. And trying to be normal again.
So well said. I had actually forgotten about Rumpel, being a poor man himself, giving the Dark One money. He even brought him into his home and fed him. And I also remember his little mini speech about all the good he could do if he had the power of the Dark One. He had pure intentions. He wanted to save the rest of his village’s children from being taken away and slaughtered. That was his original reason for wanting to control the Dark One.
I also can’t wait to see Rumpel and Bae in the next episode. They looked so close and intimate in those episode stills. It makes me sad to think that maybe something bad happened to little Bae. 😥 😥 😥