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I can kind of see how some people might’ve preferred for it to be Emma herself or Emma with her parents or Henry, but personally I’m not going to complain about getting adorable CS scenes.
I dont actually have a problem with it at all from a shipping or story perspective- it makes total sense for Emma to open up to someone who isnt part of her painful past IMO. Emma knows why, understands & forgives Snow, Charming for giving her up etc. but that pain is still there from her childhood & even Henry is a part of that painful past- it doesnt make sense at this point for them to see how emotionally painful her past is to her again- they did that in S2 & S3 with Henry & Snowing- it makes zero sense for her to open about her past to Regina, since Regina caused it all to happen in the 1st place, Elsa may have worked, but she’s more worried about finding Anna atm, so that leaves Killian as the only other person who Emma trusts & is not in anyway involved with her painful childhood/teenage years. Also I think when we consider it was supposed to be Killian who Emma opened up to/ admitted still feeling like she was an orphan & always would be, in NL & they (rightly) decided to change it to Snow, that it was time for Emma to open up about her past to Killian- it just fits nicely within the narrative & will help drive drive the angst train when the poop hits the fan about the Killian/Rumple debacle.
And I know I’ve said this before, but based on Neal’s various introduction episodes, I find it hard to believe that he was supposed to be Emma’s happy ending. First we see him leave her pregnant and in jail for his crime in “Tallahassee” and learn that he’s the one who taught her never to trust anyone. Then the first time we see them interact in the present, Neal (a) yells at her for bringing his father to him, (b) literally laughs in her face when she points out that he abandoned her like Rumple abandoned him, and (c) makes demands about being in Henry’s life when I’m pretty sure he gave up any paternal rights he might’ve had when he left the 16-17-year-old girl, with whom he’d had unprotected sex, in prison for his crime with no way to reach him. Any time you have sex with someone, you have to know that there could be a baby (even if the chances are very small depending on contraceptives). When you know that, and still leave the person with whom you had sex with no way to contact you, surely that is knowingly surrendering your parental rights.
Agreed 1000%
But like I said, I suppose we’ll never know, although I’m going to take A&E at their word when they say they’d planned it. We do know of one instance for sure where they changed their plans for the show because someone wanted them to, though. Ahem.
Are you thinking Belle or Charming here? Or have I missed something lol