Emma gets two RAINBOWS why?

Emma I believe was sent before the curse came.

First, of all, good catch on the sequence because it could come back later in the story as something like you are suggesting. Of course, it could have just been ’cause Emma is special or simply an effects choice for visual impact.

However, there is ample room for speculation on many things surrounding the enchanted tree:

– How many could the tree actually transport? Did Blue Fairy omit facts, like with Rumple/curse?
– Why it was the last enchanted tree (seems a little odd in a realm of magic / who used them up?)
– Who or what else could have come through with Emma?
– if the tree portal is still active for two to return, like the Wonderland mirror.

I rewatched the scene and saw what you saw and even viewed it frame by frame. The sequence went something like this:

Pinocchio in wardrobe, Geppetto closes doors
Wardrobe shakes, Geppetto opens doors
Pinocchio gone, Geppetto and Jiminy observe empty Wardrobe
Geppetto cries
Tree explodes with flash, rainbow ring, smoke
Pinocchio crawls out
Plane flies overhead, frightens him
Pinocchio goes to look into tree
Tree jolts him with some sort force field (one way ticket?)
Pinocchio is hurled to ground and appears to be knocked unconscious
Pinocchio sees flashbacks of events just prior to crawling into Wardrobe
Tree does the double flash rainbow thing
Pinnocchio seems fascinated by the effects, looks around
Emma appears in tree
Pinnochio gets Emma

Pinocchio sees flashbacks I find this flashback and odd event, as we’ve just seen all this. So, it might be worth really looking at it again to determine if something was slightly altered for use in a later episode to explain another idea in the story. Like the double rainbow, it could be nothing – but slight-of-hand editing tricks can play heavily into plot twists when loose ends need to be tied together. For example, let’s say Jiminy Cricket hops into the Wardrobe and the wind blows the doors shut and there’s just an inkling of magic left to whisk him off but the rainbow shockwave pushes him so deep into the forest he doesn’t find Pinocchio…a new storyline develops etc, The same effect if another small being, like a fairy came through but intentionally hid until Pinocchio took Emma.

So, there are lots of paths to play on with the smallest of details and we all get to create new possible stories in our imaginations. That’s part of the magic of OUAT.

Keep those eyes peeled!

I didn’t see the book. Now I’ll have to go watch again.

Nobody did. Pinnochio got knocked down after the second rainbow and after third he was already down. By the time he went back to the tree Emma was already there. Who is to say the book was not somewhere in the tree. I do not think the curse would come from there to here. We only see PIn with Emma after the fact. We do not know if he came back or even moments afterwards. The next scene we see is Pin and Emma in the orphanage.