I was looking at some concept art created for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It was interesting to see that a lot of the early concept work had a strong 18th century style influence.
This got me thinking it would be cool to draw an 18th century Rumbelle illustration. Enjoy!
One of my favourite parts of Desperate Souls (aside from other bits that I’ll talk about in my recap) is Rumple becoming The Dark One.
He had no idea that the action of killing Zoso (side-note: he’s one of my favourite parts too, hehe) would result in him becoming the Dark One. He was basically tricked into becoming The Dark One.
Looks like you made a deal you didn’t understand. I don’t think you gonna do that again.
That is BRILLIANT storytelling! How easy could it have been to just write this origin story as “oh, he’s power-hungry and he wanted the power himself so he intentionally took that power”? Yeah, it might have worked (…not so much in season 1-3 but that weird phase in season 4-6… yeah, I’m not a fan of those seasons for him) but that’s nowhere near as interesting or tragic as “it was a mistake”.
It’s one thing to be cursed because it’s a punishment, or being burdened with power because you feel you have no other choice but to turn to it… it’s a whole other burden to literally be tricked into having that power.
And I love that scene when he saves Baelfire… but you can tell he’s already being seduced by the power.
It’s so brilliant.
The disparity between the innovative twists on classic fairytale tropes in season one versus the gratuitous Disney plugs in later seasons is literally staggering to me.
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