I guess we’re just gonna ignore what the Charming’s wanted Emma to do so…
If the writing had shown some agency for Emma, and that Emma actually weighed anything first…. And Emma ignored what a dead man wanted last season….
It has been said by others more eloquently than I, but really, who was more in danger, two people about to fall into a coma (which makes them easy targets for villains), or a person who has capably survived in a dangerous profession for over 100 years (with very robust health that belies their age) on very familiar turf. Who as coincidentally been brought back from the dead by a god before? (probably not going to happen again, but I wouldn’t put anything past these writers).
The writers shouldn’t have broken the dead is dead rule. I don’t mean they should have left Killian dead in the first place, I mean the writers shouldn’t have made him dead in the first place.