Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[enchantedfan]

I feel so sorry for ‘Killian’, when in a future episode, Emma lets him down as a love interest.

My interpretation of 3×17 was a developing friendship between these two, and in particular, Killian’s rocky road to a caring and conscientious character. I really, really, really, do not see the romance between these two. It does seem rushed doesn’t it. How many times was the audience surprised at past outcomes. Many times. The OUAT writers and AE have already written the scripts for the rest of season 3, and perhaps, a few for season 4. There is a storyline we are not privy to until the deliberate sneak peeks and photos are released for us to speculate on. The writers wrote a scene of a closed casket – why closed? Why didn’t the writers show Neal in the casket? To mislead the fans? Bold storytelling.

Emma’s character, as the writers are developing her, is slowly accepting another aspect of her nature. It’s hard to take in your true lineage, your reluctant mission in life. Of course, Emma wants some normality to balance these forces within her. That does not, IMO, translate into romance, it translates into a friendship. For me, the writers are showing Killian as an unrequited lover, a man who has met a woman that can be a friend, not a lover. Something completely new to Killian and he mistakes it for romantic love.

It’s not wishful thinking on my part to soooooo want to believe the writers have not written off Baelfire. I think I get the direction they are going, there is after all another season to write, more adventures, more villains who pop up. Look at what’s in store next week…….a séance !!!!!! To bring back the dead!!!!!  Whahhhhh!!!

I hope I’m not tiring some of you with my persistant ramblings on my faith that Swanfire is the end game. As AE said, “Happy endings are never easy”