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Yeah, valid points Phee. The quotes were so strikingly similar I jumped to the conclusion that their endgame/final scene involved Emma and her TL… in all honesty, I expect not just Emma and her TL but also Henry and the entire cast (incl her parents, Regina, Rumbelle etc) as well as some sort of “they all lived happily ever after.” We know how they love their bookends, so I would imagine they’ll want to be bookending the start of the show – “Once Upon a Time” with Charming saving Snow with a TLK.
It seems self-centered to assume that on a show that has a large core cast, the show would finalize centering on one specific love story, BUT again we go back to the fact that this is *Emma’s fairytale.* As such, SHE is the one who needs the fairytale ending. Incidentally, I went and pulled up the original Snow White fairytale, and it begins with her parents and ends with the wedding, banished queen and HEA… so starting the series with Snowing and ending with Emma and her TL would fit right into that mold.
(Incidentally also, Snow is also not awakened by TLK but someone tripping with her coffin and the apple being dislodged from her throat. It wouldn’t surprise me terribly much to see them so something similar with SF – although they need to put a TLK in there somewhere – just because it seems they always do the unexpected. See the entry for “dates, Emma Swan,” whereby Emma has gone on four dates in the show – three to fancy restaurants and one on carnival swings, lol.)
(ETA: Forgot about her self-labeled date with August at the well, so that’s not actually right but there’s probably another Thing there that I don’t have the brainpower to analyze at the moment lol.)
Just for clarity’s sake, my argument with all of this is not that we will definitively “win,” just that I don’t buy that our ship is as out of the running as it seems. Death is… nothing on this show. Snow was dead, Henry twice, Charming’s heart was crushed, Blue, Marian, Rumplestiltskin, etc. “I ship the dead guy” sounds insane but on a show where dead means nothing AND the franchise has already reversed death in order to hand over a HEA (or happily-until-we-need-the-character-on-the-mothership, grrrr!) it’s just not that insane.
I have, like, five different meta things to post but I’m going to break them up into different posts so that it’s not one long wall of text… help me out and talk about stuff here, people :p
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...