Something ELSE is going on here, whatever it is. That doesn’t mean Neal is safe or in danger–it just means we’re lacking a lot of information to even assume that a heart was needed to reboot (?) SB back to existence or whatever it was that happened.
Yep, I’m not convinced this new Curse is the kinda thing that required a heart sacrifice, because it has a different purpose, not to create something new, but rather to go back to what was. The reboot isn’t as hardcore as what Regina did when she created the place from scratch, so I don’t think the effort of re-casting it will necessarily be as hardcore either.
Come to think of it — how come Emma didn’t try kissing her kid’s forehead again to see if the curse would break? Seems a logical way to try and get everyone’s memories back since it worked the first time…and it takes 3 seconds.
Neither one of them are subject to the conditions of this new Curse, so I don’t think it would matter. I think part of the reason that it worked for the original Curse was that Henry, though he wasn’t cursed like everyone else was, he was still affected by the Curse, having lived under it all his life. So the kiss was someone from within the Curse (Henry) and someone from without (Emma) creating that magical connection. In this new instance, Emma and Henry are separate entities to what’s going on with the Curse. I think if a kiss is gonna break this one, it’s gonna be Regina kissing Henry. She came close to drawing him in for a forehead kiss in 313 but stopped herself. I think that forehead kiss will happen again, after Henry believes (we know he’s getting the book back, and it was holding the book that helped bring back Emma’s memories when she was ready to believe, so I could see the same thing happening with Henry), and he’ll go to Regina all, “Mom!” and she’ll kiss him and *POOF* Curse is broken, everyone’s memories are back. I think it’s gotta be Regina involved this time, because I think that blood potion is taking the place of the true love potion from the original Curse, putting Regina in the place of the person being able to break it, instead of Emma.