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I really don’t know how I feel about all this. It definitely does take away Emma’s uniqueness to say she is just one of the saviors.
True, if there are several saviors, then it makes me wonder what they’re supposed to have been saviors of anyway. Did Jafar curse Agrabah? Was Aladdin the one to break that curse? Also, it makes me wonder if someone else could become a savior figure in the future — maybe Henry or even Regina. It seems like there were a lot of hints in season 5 about Regina being the next savior.
I’ve also long wondered what Emma is supposed to be the savior of anymore. What is her larger narrative purpose now? She’s supposed to be the protagonist, but she’s not even doing that much saving anymore. Yeah, she broke the first dark curse, but what exactly has been her larger function in the story since then? She hasn’t really done that much and seems to have become diminished and reduced. Hook tried to convince her that Emma saved the town from Zelena and Peter Pan, but that was really Regina and Rumple, respectively. The villains seemed more heroic in S3. Emma did kill Cruella in season 4 to save Henry, but then the writers twisted that heroic act as foreshadowing of Emma going dark, which she did in a bid to spare Regina from being the dark one.
I’m sure Emma is going to be questioning that herself in season 6. JMo posted on Instagram this picture on Emma laying on a therapist’s couch with the caption: “Emma has a lot on her mind lately”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIfBziwhwcI/
I’m 100% sure now that Emma is the one who is going to be getting therapy from Archie, which I’m actually really looking forward to. That woman has got a lot of issues to deal with!
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy