If everyone in SB lost their memories and scattered in the real world, we’d be back to more of a season 1 feel with Emma having to try to bring back the happy endings, and flashing back to the “real story” of their FTL lives. Perhaps doing all that while avoiding the Home Office. I somehow don’t think that is what A&E have in mind because I think they want to shake things up more than get into a formulaic groove. They broke the curse of memory in season 1, land now they’re breaking the trap of SB in season 2.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass