Reply To: EW 3/3 – Spoiler Room – Heartbreaking Flashback

[Slurpeez]

Slurpeez wrote:

My second guess would be a flashback about young Emma since we’re also supposed to see her, too, and learn how she got the last name Swan.

That’s in the premiere and I wouldn’t call it heartbreaking–at least not the level that the spoiler is saying. I mean…Emma’s an orphan on the streets, August shows up and tells her what he thinks the message of “Ugly Duckling” is, she decides to take the last name of Swan.

That’s why I put my first guess as being a Snowing flashback since it was specifically mentioned in the Hot Seat that there would be a Snowing flashback. The reason I put my second choice as Emma was actually to a KSITETV interview when Adam said the following:

Are there some returning characters that you’re particularly excited to see again?
AH: I’m just excited for more digging into the lives of our core characters, from Snow and Charming and more of their back stories, to Emma, and seeing more of young Emma — not just what you see this Sunday, but beyond that. I think that there’s a lot of really emotional stuff for all of them that they’re all going to face in the second half of this season. x

It sounds like there will be more than one flashback of young Emma this half season. But since the spoiler specifically said to look at the Hot Seat, I’m still going to stay with the heartbreaking flashback being between Snowing, for now.