Didn’t Rumple check?

[scaredcrow65]

Ok, the dark one is many different things, but I would not call him naive. Yet his enemy shows up at his house and tells him his true love is dead, and he doesn’t even confirm it? That seems very unrumple. He seems too smart to take the queen at her word, even if he does believe her. And Rumple doesn’t exactly shy away from revenge. He killed a guy for brushing Bae with his cart. But he never sought out revenge on Maurice? That seems out of character. I would say that the pent up rage he had towards Mo proves he never took revenge in FTL. So what’s the deal here? Did he really not check?

[obisgirl]

We all knew the Evil Queen was lying but it is curious that we never saw him check things out. maybe there’s some deleted scenes on the DVD.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Perhaps the Snow’s statement in the pilot that Rumplestiltskin “see’s the future,” was just from their perspective, and not a fact. Someone who “writes” the future with curses and pushes people into situations could appear to know the future.

But maybe Rumple doesn’t actually know the future, which is why he didn’t know Belle was still alive or being held by Regina.

[Gaultheria]

Rumpel chose to believe it, for the same reason that he chose to push Belle away.

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[midnight dreary]

Guys, trust me. This is just another example of the writers having characters doing things that are out of character just so that it could further the plot. The writers needed Rumpel to think that Belle was dead so that they could surprise him in the season finale. The writers do this kind of thing all the time. They’ll have the characters do thing that they normally wouldn’t so that they can push the plot forward. Sad, but true.

[PriceofMagic]

Rumpel did initially accuse Regina of lying to which she replied “Am I?” She let him draw his own conclusions which he did. Had she said anything else, he probably wouldn’t have believed her.

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[hjbau]

I agree. There are a lot of things that seem out of character in the show. Like when Emma trusted Sidney. Maybe the answer is the same as it was for this situation. Rumpel let his emotions cloud his judgement. And maybe he did look for her, but couldn’t find her.

[a chipped cup]

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

Guys, trust me. This is just another example of the writers having characters doing things that are out of character just so that it could further the plot. The writers needed Rumpel to think that Belle was dead so that they could surprise him in the season finale. The writers do this kind of thing all the time. They’ll have the characters do thing that they normally wouldn’t so that they can push the plot forward. Sad, but true.

I agree. The writers have been doing this all season long. Especially with Emma’s character. Unfortunately, this is only one in a long line of OOC moments on OUAT.

[Aliasscape]

We still don’t know how much of Regina’s story was true and how much wasn’t. The only thing we know was false was that Belle didn’t die. But there may have been just enough truth in Regina’s story that a cursory check would have made it all seem true. Maybe people DID believe Belle was dead for some reason that Regina concocted. But for all we know it was true up until the moment of leaping out the tower at which point Regina teleported Belle away to a dungeon for safekeeping. Or she gave her a sleeping potion, so Belle was buried and Regina teleported her out of her grave thereafter.

I was thinking it’d be easier for Belle and Mo not to have a relationship in Storybrooke if it turns out he did in some way reject her/drive her away. (They’ll probably pretend he never existed the same way they haven’t brought back up Charming’s mother but oh well.) On the one hand, what could Rumpel do to Mo in the Enchanted Forest that would make him suffer more than believing his daughter killed herself? Only in Storybrooke would he have really been unburdened since he didn’t recall and then Gold felt the guy needed punishing?

Edit: I also think seeing the future is often interpreted too broadly. If you can see one future event happening a year, a month, a week, you can see the future. But it doesn’t mean you know any and everything that ever did or will happen. Maybe you can only see your own future, or only see major future events but not smaller ones. Or maybe you can only see what you know to look for.

[hjbau]

That is true. Regina could have spread a story that that happened. And even if Rumpel confronted Moe and he said he didn’t do it, i doubt very much that Rumpel would believe him.

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