I’ve Given Up On Gold | OUAT S5

 

Seriously, if you don’t watch Once Upon a Time, I’d suggest you don’t read this. Pick up the show, and when you’ve gotten all the way through to the end of Season 5, then we can talk. SPOILER ALERT! (This post also contains a spoiler for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.)

 

 

 

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There’s a difference between Gold and Rumpel. I preferred Rumpel. He’s the shiny, more noticeably crazy one. He was funny in an evil sort of way. That scene when he first met Belle was hilarious! Do you guys remember when her dad called him a beast? I miss those moments.

Gold… I’m getting sick of Gold. They’re technically the same person, same Dark One, same coward. But he has just gotten terrible. Every time I think he’ll be better, nopenevermindwon’thappen! What really put the nail in the coffin for me was the Season 5B finale episode. The whole room was shaking, something bad was gonna happen, and Gold had to keep his stuff safe.

He basically had two choices: power and love. One choice was the Olympian Crystal, which he wanted to use for its power to free Belle from the sleeping curse. The other choice was Pandora’s Box, which has Belle and their baby in it. He hesitates, probably wondering which one is more important right now.

He picks the Crystal. And I am so disappointed. I wasn’t shocked but still disappointed. I have been disappointed with him before. His evil, power craving ways have annoyed me multiple times! In fact, one of my favorite things in the scene where Belle puts herself under the sleeping curse is when she tells him he’s not her true love anymore.

In the beginning, I absolutely loved them. “Aww! He’s the Beast! This is so cute! He’s like a triple, if not quadruple, threat. Crocodile, Beast, Dark One, and Rumpelstiltskin!” But even when his heart was completely pure he wanted to be evil. That’s when I really gave up. Belle deserves better.

I just want her to be happy. And I’m not sure if her having Gold’s baby will be a good thing. (I know she’s pregnant in real life and that’s why they wrote that into the show…but we’re talking about Belle right now! Not Emilie de Ravin.) I don’t want her to lose the baby. But at the same time, it’s his kid too. And he’s broken her heart many many times. And she’s given him many many chances.

He’s basically become Gollum. Just without the split personalities. He gets slightly better, Sméagol comes out for a while, but the Precious is too powerful, too tempting. The Darkness has pretty much consumed him. Rumpel chose power over Belle. That’s it. He’s gonna fall into a volcano soon, I swear. (There’s that LOTR spoiler!)

So, writers of OUAT, what are you trying to do here? Are you trying to ruin Belle, make her evil, or tell an inspiring story about a woman who fell in love but realizes she don’t need no man? Especially if he’s a bad person, and not to mention crazy. Are you trying to make him a better person or a worse one? So far it seems like the latter is true. There has been no improvement in his character despite having such a kind, loving person in his life that wants the best for him. I honestly have no clue where they’re going with Rumpel and Belle. But kudos to Robert Carlyle and de Ravin for doing such a great job playing them!

What do you guys think? Is he redeemable or is it Mount Doom for him?

HELLO & WELCOME

Hi! Welcome to my blog! Here I’ll review movies and TV shows I watch, books I read, video games I play, and talk about whatever with you guys during Summer vacation. Sound cool?

So. I’m a 15-year-old dork. Okay, maybe not. I’ve searched the interwebs and I’ve decided I’m actually more geeky than dorky. There’s a difference! So why “DORK Talk with Izzie”? Well, I never really say ‘geek’ in my daily life. For some reason it sounds more like and insult to me. One day, almost a year ago, while brainstorming ideas for titles, it just came to me. (Really, I was looking at the Dork Diaries books on my shelf and that’s why I thought of it, but still!) Dork Talk with Izzie. I didn’t wanna change it. So, yeah. That name is a lie. Sorry. XP

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a couple months. In October of 2014, I was thinking about how I love talking about the entertainment I consume on a regular basis. “I wanna start a podcast!” I thought to myself. “I could come up with cool catch phrases, play music for my intros and outros, and just ramble on about stuff I like! That’ll be fun!”

Maybe you can tell, seeing as how Dork Talk with Izzie is a blog and not a podcast, I didn’t end up doing that. After a year or two of brainstorming and soul searching, I came to the conclusion that I express myself better when I write things down. I can always come back to edit things. I can say something stupid and take it out later a lot easier than with a podcast. I kept thinking how it might get annoying to keep going back to edit, record myself, and edit again.

What if I run out of breath? Will I sound weird? When I practiced doing the podcast (translation: talked to myself in my room about junk) I usually kept pausing to either think of what to say next or to catch my breath. I’d be so excited about what I was talking about that I’d lose track of my own oxygen levels! Doing a podcast didn’t seem like the funnest – a real word now – thing. But I still wanted to talk to others around the world about cool stuff.

Then. Inspiration. Start a blog. I had been a fan of certain blogs and wondered if it would be fun. I was still doing school at this point so I didn’t do much to get this going yet. But it didn’t stop me from thinking, writing, and planning! Ironically, I read a lot of blog posts about how to start a blog.

Lot of options out there. Lot of ideas. Somehow, in a short amount of time, this beauty came into existence! So yes, this’ll be a nice place for me to rant or fangirl. Hopefully someone out there will like my rant and fangirl rambling and join in the fun!

I will post things as often as I can. But I am still getting used to this. And y’know, I got a lot of nothing to do, it being Summer and all. So sorry if I’m busy-but-not-really-busy-mostly-just-lazy.

No, but really. Life stuff could happen! And do you know how many books I wanna catch up on? Probably not as many as a lot of book lovers, but still a considerable amount. Anyway…

Hello & Welcome! I look forward to discussing the movie, TV, video game, and YA novel universes with you! ‘Til next time.