AX: Was there ever any possibility of Emma not getting her memory back?
HOROWITZ: One of Emma’s core themes was finding her parents, and she found them, and it would be a shame if everything we built for fifty-some episodes went away.
KITSIS: We didn’t want to have all that disappear.
SO, it’s a shame if they do that to Emma, but they totally did it for Bae. Okay. That’s EXACTLY what they did to him. A and E just pretty much said what we’ve been saying!
WORD! Infuriating to see them saying that huh.
Speaking of infuriating, at the very real risk of being infuriatingly optimistic, they’re shooting for the finale at the well with the magic water that returns lost stuff, including people. Granted it could be for any number of things, but I’m just over here yelling out SHENANIGANS about everything already, so can’t help myself.