My Angry Letter to the OUAT writers about Rumbelle
I just wanted to say thank you very much for making such a complete and utter train wreck out of my favourite characters and couple on the show: Rumple and Belle.
Thank you for turning Belle into a complete hypocrite and a preachy, insipid, pointless and annoying character who is hardly ever on screen and has almost the exact same dialogue in every scene when she is on screen. The times that she is on screen she only serves as either a walking library or background furniture, leverage against Rumple or in the latest and most insulting plot twist yet, rendered an incubator by the sleeping curse which she administered to herself on the advice of the woman who locked her husband up like an animal and killed his son. Ā
Thank you for taking what should have been a strong, independent, intelligent,Ā and adventurous woman and turning her into a naive, gullible, impulsive shadow of her former self with an obsession with heroism and who desperately seeks the approval of the hypocrite āheroesā who couldnāt care less about her. Thank you for turning her into a character who doesnāt know what she wants, who uses the dagger to control her husband to get her own way and storms off on him or banishes him instead of talking to him and constantly tortures herself and her husband instead of being brave enough to leave him for good rather than constantly break up and make up with him. Thank you for making Belle such a poor character that I prefer Lacey instead. Ā Oh and thank you for making Belleās father such an asshole that he would happily let his daughter and grandchild rot under the sleeping curse.
Thank you for making Rumplestiltskin your punching bag and scapegoat at every opportunity and using every way you could think of to try and make him out to be a complete bastard. Ā Thank you for trying to reduce Rumplestiltskinās importance in a show in which several of the main characters would never have come together or even been born without him. Thank you for initially building up a backstory for him when he was human in which we were led to sympathise with him until somewhere along the line you seemingly changed your minds and one by one began stripping away all the good things about him and making shite of his character with every new backstory reveal and allowing every other character to be redeemed in some way except him and while weāre on that note thank you for ruining the Dark One mythology as well.
Thank you for killing Rumpleās son Bae, Rumpleās motivation for taking on the Dark One curse in the first place and for everything that lead up to him making the curse that created Storybrooke. Thank you for putting Rumplestiltskin in the position where he constantly has to choose between his wife and his powers while other characters can be redeemed at the drop of a hat without losing their powers like Regina and Zelena. Thank you for making Belle walk away from Rumple when his heart was purest which is supposedly what she wanted but then suddenly didnāt because all of a sudden she apparently likes the darkness in him again after not liking it for all of season 4 and loving it for the first three seasons. Ā Thank you for not giving Rumple the courage to walk away from Belle for a change.
Thank you for ruining Rumbelle in so many ways not just one. For giving Rumbelle fans five years of bullshit angst, contrived separations, arguments, repeated break ups and make ups, the brief Will Scarlet fling, and letting the relationship come to a complete standstill with no development or progression whatsoever. For keeping Rumple and Belle trapped in the same nasty, vicious and seemingly endless cycle. For never letting Belle and Rumple go on adventures together, for never giving them a single moment of happiness without it being constantly overshadowed by doom and gloom, even the baby story line was overshadowed. For ruining their true loveās kiss and making the meaning of the words true loveās kiss lose all value in this show. Thank you for promising yet more of the same angst and separations in season six. Thank you for ruining Beauty and the Beast.
After five years I can safely say the angst has worn thin and a fan can only take so much of their favourite characters being relentlessly treated like garbage. Thank you for turning what should have been a beautiful story into a soap opera. Thank you for sucking the life and soul right out of these two much beloved characters and their relationship and acting like you couldnāt care less. Thank you for subjecting Rumbelle to the worst treatment of any of the regular couples on the show with the exception of the late Outlaw Queen.
I love Rumbelle and have loved them since season one, they are my favourite couple in the show and I would love to see improvements for them in the show in future. I would love to see them being happy together with no angst or worries hanging over their heads, but you have made such a mess of it I donāt even know if thatās possible anymore and Iāve given up any hope of the show repairing the damage that has been done to Rumbelle.Ā How can there be when you place all of the blame for whatās happened to them solely on Rumpleās shoulders and brush all of Belleās faults under the rug and treat her actions like they never happened or had any impact whatsoever on Rumple.
So from the bottom of my disappointed heart I say fuck you OUAT writers.
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