Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Slurpeez]

Going back to the vilification of the heroes in S3b, it is a pretty “bold” move. I have to wonder if the writers are pushing the envelope to the extreme, precisely because they intend to change the past. The writers have introduced Zelena wanting her “second chance” to have the life she always envied. Perhaps the past will be changed, but not in the way Zelena predicted. The heroes perhaps can’t stop Zelena from casting a powerful spell to reverse time, but they can keep her from writing Eva’s legacy out completely. Just maybe the course of history will be changed, but only to the point that the first dark curse was never even cast so that Emma was still born but grew up in the EF.

If so, then S4 will be one big Alternate Universe. That means the writers can vilify the heroes all they want now, because two weeks from now, that all goes away. Baelfire never would have met Emma, and therefore never would’ve died in an ooc way to get back to her. Henry never would’ve even been born. Emma never would’ve had a hand in pulling the plug on Neal’s life support. Snow and David never would’ve cast the dark curse. Maybe that is why the writers feel emboldened to make the heroes do “villainous” things which feel so out of character with the way they were originally portrayed. That could be why so many of us who root for the heroes baffled by the narrative choice. The writers had better fix this by end of S3 or even more fans who were hanging on for dear life will quit the show permanently. There’d better be a rhyme for all this madness.