I was thrilled with all the spoilers today. EXCEPT: it REALLY REALLY bothers me when Adam/Eddy keep saying that the JR crew is going back to who they really are. I’m sorry, there is nothing in this world that will ever convince me that, at heart, Gold IS the Dark One. That’s who he’s been for 300 years, but that is not who he really is. Belle knows this and we know it. God, they had him say that he wants to go back to his best self; they’ve shown him to have an incredibly tortured backstory. Asking us to believe that Gold’s real honest and core self IS the Dark One not only means there is a huge disconnect between what they’re writing and what we see on screen, it means that – the curse means nothing in regards to his life. How does this make sense? For all of his life, he was a good man, a beautiful soul – and he is still that man, struggling to come out.
I adore Gold and to hear Adam and Eddy talk as if the real man is this Dark One hurts. I’m only hoping that perhaps they meant that he has to confront his childhood……because otherwise, nothing makes sense……..and I’ll tie this into my comments regarding the spoiler that Belle will affect Gold even though they are in different lands
I LOVE this spoiler because I want Gold to be thinking of Belle…………. of course she’s always going to affect him, and he’ll affect her. I think this is part of his struggle to be good while he knows he has to do some dark things…. He still so badly wants to be good and I can see him believing that what he has to do may permanently make him this monster he’s always seen himself as. He loves Belle so very much, and he needs her – Bobby couldn’t emphasize this enough at CC (not that we didn’t know it). I think he needs her NOW because he needs her or the thought of her to remind him that this is something that has to be done, that he is not doing anything in NL just for thrills, that he still has all that good in him..that he’s doing this for the love of his son and grandson, that he’s still full of love and that god ,no, he’s not a beast or a monster or anything. This is how I think she’s going to affect him…….I’m SO excited to see this play out. He does NOT want to die as the Dark Oe
So, to me, Gold going after the bad guys is him doing the right thing. Sorry, these people will never have sympathy from me. I know Adam/Eddy created ONCE, but if they think he is truly the DO, then I have no clue how they could write anything they’ve written – and it means Belle is wrong about him.