Not sure it entirely worked myself, because the story shows Rumplestiltskin initially as a good man who is having his children ripped from him. And he is desperate to prevent that, and becomes willing to do anything.
This is a great set-up for showing a slow slide into corruption, but since they only have 45 minutes to tell the tale (less than that, with the modern tale going on simultaneously), they have to resort to turning him corrupt not by his choices entirely, but by being magicked into it in the end, and that sort of corruption story is a cop-out that never quite works on an emotional level for a viewer.
But is necessary if you've made a character convincingly a good person upfront (::cough::Morgana Pendragon::cough::).
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Date: 2012-01-09 04:23 pm (UTC)This is a great set-up for showing a slow slide into corruption, but since they only have 45 minutes to tell the tale (less than that, with the modern tale going on simultaneously), they have to resort to turning him corrupt not by his choices entirely, but by being magicked into it in the end, and that sort of corruption story is a cop-out that never quite works on an emotional level for a viewer.
But is necessary if you've made a character convincingly a good person upfront (::cough::Morgana Pendragon::cough::).