@Dreaming_Mike wrote:
@TheTrickster wrote:
If Emma truly loved Neil, why wouldn’t it have worked as a kiss between the two? Why did it have to be Emma and Henry?
I agree. I’m very confused by this. The way I interpreted it…Emma needed to use TLK in Storybrooke to break the curse, and the reason it was so difficult is because she couldn’t love at first. And she couldn’t believe in magic.
But Neal sure as hell believed in magic (after he saw whatever was in that box. Grrr.). So he could have helped her believe. With the help of August, both of them would have known about the curse, and both of them could have used TLK. It would have been so much easier!
Otherwise, if we think about August’s plan to separate Emma from Neal, thus leaving her alone and bitter…how could that possibly guarantee that she would go to Storybrooke on her 28th birthday? Especially since August didn’t know that Emma was pregnant with Henry when he separated them. Did he plan to knock on her door in Boston and say, “Hi, I was the boy who found you as a baby. You need to break a magical curse.”
But maybe Emma had to find true love in Storybrooke. Maybe “the first-born child of Emma Swan” was written into the curse and had to be brought to Storybrooke in order for the curse to be broken.
Eager to hear more interpretations, because at the moment I’m lost. 😕