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| By Laura Akers |
I will not fangirl out…
Okay, maybe just a little.
One of the great joys about Once Upon a Time is that at the very moment when you start thinking, “Hey, they’ve forgotten about X…” or “How the hell did Y happen in the first place?” the very next episode seems written just for you.
Of course, this is an illusion. After all, it’s the writers who set those questions up in the first place. They’ve been manipulating you to have that exact reaction at that exact moment.
That’s the nature of good writing.
Two things specifically had been bothering me going into this week’s episode, one directly relating to Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold and the other…hmmm…a little less so. The first one has to do with Rumple’s backstory. Sure we’ve seen his life before the Ogre War, his loss of his wife and son, and his machinations around the Curse. But while he’s played the Beast to Belle’s Beauty, he’s never really been the Rumplestiltskin of the fairy tale. In that story, he spins straw into gold for the Miller’s Daughter (she’s rarely named in the story) whose father has been boasting that she possesses this skill (which, of course, she does not). So how does that storyline fit within the OUaT universe?
I was beginning to believe they’d forgotten it completely, when voila! we finally get to see Mr. Gold as the actual Rumplestiltskin.
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