[ SECRET POST #6990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6990 ⌋

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Comments

Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

I fell out of love with Rumpelstiltskin and Belle in Once Upon a Time.

I liked the two characters and their version of the beauty-and-the-beast dynamic. But then Rumple kept going on this redemption-corruption carousel and Belle got sidelined. (Eventually there was some awful mystical pregnancy coma?) Seeing them become shades of their former selves soured me on the whole thing.

Re: Once Upon a Time

[philstar22]

Oh god yes. The carousel of Rumple. That show. At least with some of the redemption arcs, they stuck. With him, he kept going back to evil and then just instantly forgiven the moment he decided to try to be good again. And it was ultimately always about himself and maybe sometimes about her and his son. He never actually wanted to be good for the right reasons. He was always selfish right to the end.

Re: Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

You actually made me realize that in most other stories I get into, that kind of character might be allowed to find some half-way point, some way of being a periodic ally to the heroes without going for a full redemption. But since OUaT is fundamentally a fairytale-based show, that’s not a stable option the way it is in the morally grayer world of a crime or espionage story.