@PriceofMagic wrote:
I think Emma kissing Henry will only break the sleeping curse and not the dark curse. I could be wrong but I think something bigger needs to happen for the dark curse to break. Whilst Emma believing in magic has taken all season and is a big step forward, I don’t think that alone will be enough, it’s too simple. The dark curse is meant to be “the curse to end all curses” and if all it takes to break it is Emma to believe in magic then it would have broken fairly easily if Pinnochio/August had done his job and stuck with Emma growing up. All season, the idea of true love’s kiss breaking curses has been suggested many times so I think that is the way it’s going to be broken but the quesstion is who’s kiss?
With Belle returning in the finale, I’ve been wondering whether the kiss may be between her and Rumpel. Rumpel created the curse and has been a bit anti-love since Belle. I can’t remember his exact line to Snow but it was something like “Love makes us sick, ruins our days, haunts our dreams”. Emma may play a key part in reuniting them, plus one of the ingredients of the curse was the heart of the thing you love most so love must also be the way to break it.
I agree that it is more than Emma just believing to break the curse. Her believing, I believe, will take her down the path to how to break the curse and to try to break it. I had called that Emma had to find true love but that was refuted in Ep. 21 per the “I call it” forum. I still think if love is to break the curse, it has to do with Emma’s true love (or true love kiss).