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It seems as though Emma has to “embrace”a different thing in order for her to be able to accomplish something with her magic. She had to embrace Storybrooke as her home in order for her to reclaim her magic. She had to embrace herself in order to control her magic.
I understand that Emma has walls, but it seems as if they’re writing her to be a character who can’t do ANYTHING unless they accept some aspect of her life. What do you guys think?
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She had to embrace her love of Henry to break the first curse.
You’re not wrong. As for “what do I think?’ I haven’t quite made up my mind yet because all of those moments played well on screen.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"She had to embrace her love of Henry to break the first curse. You’re not wrong. As for “what do I think?’ I haven’t quite made up my mind yet because all of those moments played well on screen.
They did play well, and I liked the scene where she stands with her family (as well as the music played during it). But I feel as if they’re making Emma almost too guarded for the sake of the plot, especially because she wasn’t scared of her magic before.
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The way Emma is written makes sense to me, so I don’t really have a problem with her. JMo once described Emma as an overgrown teenager that never really learned how to deal with things properly. She’s emotionally stunted, I think is what JMo said. So it makes sense that does things in baby steps because it’s what she can handle for the moment.
The way Emma is written makes sense to me, so I don’t really have a problem with her. JMo once described Emma as an overgrown teenager that never really learned how to deal with things properly. She’s emotionally stunted, I think is what JMo said. So it makes sense that does things in baby steps because it’s what she can handle for the moment.
I agree with this..but at the same time…
Yes, Emma has had a very rough childhood and life and that’s why so many of us have identified with her. My problem is that OTHER characters have also had a rough life–all of them, really. And none of them have had to accept every little piece of themselves in order to DO A THING.
Now, granted Emma is the savior and at the end of the day it is her fairy tale (per A and E–don’t argue with me @WickedRegal!) So I get where Corbin is coming from, I guess in this case I see both sides.
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Emma’s story works for me, and part of that is her accepting/believing things. It does occasionally get plot-hammer treatment, but it’s played out well by the actors and works well within the storylines. It also gets mirrored and resonated by the other arcs, so I’m cool with it even when it is plothammery.
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Emma has always been the skeptical, reluctant heroine. So for her to accept her role as savior has required her to come to terms with some pretty major things. She grew up feeling like an orphan, but found out she had a family. She had to learn what having a home and having parents felt like at the age of 28, something which a lot of children take for granted from their earliest years of life. Also, Emma grew up in A Land Without Magic and suddenly learned, not only are fairytale characters real, but she’s one herself. And oh yeah, she’s the savior and is true love incarnate. So I saw her progression to accepting what home meant to her as authentic and unique.
Where I see some of this current season being a bit plot driven, rather than character driven, however, is the introduction of Frozen. Emma’s current struggle with magic was just Elsa’s struggle in the cartoon. There’s nothing all that novel or unique to Emma, since it feels like A&E just copied and pasted Elsa’s story of struggling with magic onto Emma. And that is why the 2-hour special felt forced and fake to me since we’ve never had any prior indication of Emma’s magic ever being a hazard or spiraling out of control before Frozen was introduced to the Once universe.
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And that is why the 2-hour special felt forced and fake to me since we’ve never had any prior indication of Emma’s magic ever being a hazard or spiraling out of control before Frozen was introduced to the Once universe.
I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true because Emma has been wary of her magic in the past. She’s been reluctant to embrace it. So it doesn’t really feel that far fetched to me that it would suddenly go haywire when her emotions start to boil over. Magic is emotion.
I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true because Emma has been wary of her magic in the past. She’s been reluctant to embrace it. So it doesn’t really feel that far fetched to me that it would suddenly go haywire when her emotions start to boil over. Magic is emotion.
I agree with Emma being wary of her magic and her decision to give it up isn’t out of the blue. She gave it up to save Hook and was ready to be done with it after Zelena was defeated. Yet we know that Emma’s magic is powerful since Regina often said she’s under utilizing it and just needed more training. The storyline doesn’t feel forced since the season has shown Emma accepting lots of things she hasn’t accepted before so it makes sense she must embrace who she is in order to move forward.
I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true because Emma has been wary of her magic in the past. She’s been reluctant to embrace it. So it doesn’t really feel that far fetched to me that it would suddenly go haywire when her emotions start to boil over. Magic is emotion.
Well, no denying magic is emotion. Also I didn’t find Emma wanting to give up magic to be out of the blue, since she said repeatedly in S3b that she wanted a normal life away from all the craziness. She even seemed relieved about losing her magic when Hook’s cursed lips stole her TL magic. Yet, she also seemed happy when her magic returned when she thought of what home meant to her. That arc seemed like character development for Emma.
However, what I do find a bit contrived is this idea that Emma’s magic was on the fritz and posing a danger to others, which is a carbon copy of Elsa’s struggle with magic in Frozen. I don’t think Emma would be having this struggle with magic, nor would her parents be acting like this, if it weren’t for Frozen. While we have seen Emma struggle to control her magic, we’ve never before seen her magic be out of control. That was clearly plot driven and is clearly happening because Elsa and Frozen were introduced in S4a.
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