Emma is the best character on this show, in my opinion. People do make fun of her. They call Emma a pod person, which is a completely reasonable criticism, but i don’t. I think Emma’s backstory and her parent interactions with Snow and Charming and her child interactions with Henry and her coparenting interactions with Regina are the best thing about this show. I just think they aren’t really part of the writing of the show anymore. While i love Regina’s relationship with Emma as well as Regina’s relationship with Snow, even though they make no sense and should not exist, those relationships should not take precedence over Emma’s relationship with Snow and yet they do. Also, Hook keeps stepping between the Emma and Snow conversations when he should not. Emma can talk to Hook, but not at the expense of her ever having serious, important, life altering conversations with her mother.
I like Emma’s scared about being a savior because she might die plot point, but Emma isn’t going to die, so the will she won’t she of it is not interesting to me. Also, Emma hasn’t had any deep important conversations about why she is worried and what it means for her personally that she might die after finding her happiness and what it could mean for the future and for Henry. Any conversations that she has are not detailed or based on her past or her hope for the future, they are just she is worried. Emma is still the best character on the show, in my opinion.
Seriously though, what is there to say about the good scenes? The scene with Snow and Regina talking by the town hall was really interesting even though everything the characters said is pretty much insane and it makes no sense that they are on speaking terms, but i loved that scene. Or i like that Snow and Charming are at least still worried about Emma moving in with Hook and that they are just being supportive because it makes her happy, but that scene lasted twenty seconds, so what is there to say about it, but that. I liked Emma’s scenes with Aladdin. I would rather she talk to her parents, but at least we got to see a little bit if what she was feeling.
This show has a problem in that there are too many unconnected characters. That is why Belle and Hook have conversations. That is why Emma talks to Hook so much and Rumpel to Belle so much and Regina to Zelena so much because those three characters, Hook, Belle, and Zelena don’t really have relationships with the other characters. The problem being that then causes writing problems. They then have an episode where Belle needs to talk to someone and it can’t be Rumpel because Belle is in a fight with him, again, and they need to have Emma and Regina together because Emma is the moving piece, she is figuring out what is happening, and they needed to have the conversation where Regina asks Emma to kill her. They then have this weird thing happen where Emma says Granny’s rooms are bad, which makes no sense, and so Hook invites Belle to go sleep on his ship, which makes no sense, and Belle actually accepts, which makes no sense. Then Belle and Hook have personal conversations that make no sense. Many times weird things happen on this show to free Emma and Regina so that they can talk to one another or to new characters that no one cares about.
One of the things is that even the scenes i love with Emma and Snow or with Snow and Regina or with Emma and Regina or with Rumpel and Emma or Regina or with Aladdin being the new character i like the most right now, still exist within the writing problems. I might like a scene or a relationship, but it can still be really badly written.
I think the reason i dislike Hook dating Emma so much is because of how much i like Emma as a character. Robin should not have dated Regina and i am glad he is gone or was gone, but i don’t care about Robin. Emma being such a well developed with a good back story and a deep and flawed and realistic character dating someone like Hook which goes against all of her development is grating to the extreme.