Hook will offer the shears, Emma will be angry, then she’ll be tempted, then she’ll reject the shears (and everyone will accept her decision this time), and then she’ll need to use them.
Bringing this over from the general thread:
–I’m really disappointed that Aladdin used the Shears. I guess he serves as a foil to Emma but there’s still no advancement in the Savior mythos; Aladdin has nothing to offer Emma except a way out.
Or a way to activate all of the potential saviors for the finale!
Oh sure. Let’s just go straight up Buffy S7. Why not.
I think it sounds like a very Disney resolution, in a good way: some problems are too big for one person to handle, we all have to band together, the Force is with us, that sort of thing. Emma is even the right age to have watched Buffy while growing up; she could get the idea from the show. They might have to be vague about referring to Buffy on-screen if the corporate family tree doesn’t let them say it directly, and I don’t think everyone would stay magical after the resolution, but I’m guessing the writing team expected this to be the final season when they started work after the hiatus, so a big finale that involves everyone in town could’ve be on their minds.
On a more mundane note, relatively speaking: if those shears can cut through fate, they can cut through the barrier at the edge of town.
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