Well, first this isn’t the ending of the first half of the season. 310 and 311 are still to come before the winter break.
I was very disappointed that Pan was so honest about putting his son in the Pandora’s Box. There was so much potential to this show after the “peter pan is gone forever” episode. The way he taunted his son all along, the way he caused everyone on the island to turn against Rumpelstiltskin during his stay on the island was so heart-breaking and so Pan style that when he suddenly just went and told them “oh he’s in that box” instead of “he fooled you ha ha the box is a fake and he tried to kill Henry so that I don’t take his heart” would have been so much more LIKE him.
Pan thought he WON. He didn’t realize that Regina regretted nothing and couldn’t be held to the tree. Thus, he was gloating. Which is VERY PP. He underestimated that Regina could break free from this Thinking Tree.
The reveal that he’s his father so nonchalantly just blew the whole thing into bits in our faces! I’m sorry, but the characters knowing now that Rumpel was good all along and is PP’s son minimizes the magnitude of just HOW horribly he suffered from his crazy father all these years
They do not know that Rumple has been good all along because HE HASN’T BEEN GOOD ALL ALONG. That is super important. He is complicated and tortured and sad and has done HORRIBLE things. But he has a past; he has trauma. And just like Regina and Hook, it doesn’t excuse the things he has done but it helps them understand him.
The show will not be good now because rumple is not supposed to get sympathy from the characters only from the viewers. He was always the “good guy wearing an evil mask” and suddenly his mask came off.
I don’t believe that at all. Some characters have always been sympathetic to Rumple–Belle for instance. And Emma has never seen him as a monster, more like a cunning man who knows more than he lets on. And it’s important that our characters understand each other if they are ever going to get the happily ever after as one big family.
Now the viewers understand why Rumpel was so afraid of that portal and that magic bean in “desperate souls”, we also understand why he was crying when given that peter pan doll, his father was so horrible, that he didn’t just betray him, but was laughing at him by throwing that doll to him.
Yes we understand but now so do our characters, most imporantly NEAL. Nealfire needs to see his fathers past so that they can begin to get past the hurt and have a future.
I just don’t think it should have ended so sweetly for Rumpel. There was too much potential for a better end and a whole second half of the 3rd season story Dark one should have stayed a dark one in everyone’s eyes even though we all would know how good he is inside and how right Belle is about him
Things didn’t end sweetly at all! He just put his father in a box, who isn’t really his father but his grandson and now his father is walking around in his grandfather’s skin! Things are about to become complicated and decidely UNSWEET. There is no way the father/son dynamic of PP and Rumple isn’t about to be revisted and blown up.