I agree that the love story between Rumple and Cora was rushed. I would’ve liked it to span across a few episodes like they do with other storylines, but I love the story nonetheless!
I always say that just because a character dies in this show, doesn’t mean they’ll never be back. Especially since this show is HEAVY on flashbacks, we got Graham in the season 1 finale flashback despite his death earlier in the season.
It is crazy to see Snow be the one to use the candle on Cora, but we learned in the last episode that CORA was the one who gave Snow the candle, so it’s only fair that Snow uses it against her 🤷🏻♂️