A savior dying also kind of has less weight now that we gods can revive people from death. Jesus was a savior and he came back. So the vision could be true, Emma may be on the path to death, but she will come back due to her saviorness. I wouldn’t like that, but its in the realm of possibility (heh….why does realm of possibility sound like world A&E would actually think up lol) Anyway, we really haven’t gotten much savior mythology have we. Like…we haven’t learned much about how many saviors there have been, what makes someone a savior, nothing. All we know is saviors eventually die.
I can’t imagine them actually doing the whole the gods bringing Emma back from life, especially after they did that last season with Hook and how much people hated it. Though, like you said, because they did it in the past and the trope of it all, then it certainly is a possibility.
We really haven’t gotten much savior mythology at all, except they are fated to die, whatever that means. We haven’t heard any stories or examples of what happened to saviors. Aladdin is the only way and he clipped his saviorness before anything could come of it, so he isn’t really the norm, i would think. That is why i think they are going to show Jasmine and Aladdin take Agrabah back because that will be foreshadowing to what will happen with Emma. The whole multiple saviors thing is another thing they just pulled out of nowhere this year. There was no foreshadowing to that at all.
The one thing they said besides fate is their death is that every savior has a villain. Now we all think that Gideon is Emma’s villain, but who knows. Though really, the writers may just forget what the characters said in the early episodes and it won’t mean anything. There has to be something to that first episode though, right? I mean they cold open with Jafar and Aladdin shaking, that has to all come back around for the ending, though as far as we know by then Aladdin had already clipped his saviorness and Agrabah had already fell. How did Aladdin even get to Storybrooke? I know, i know, my questions are pointless.