@malchore wrote:
Tiara – I don’t understand the need for the spoiler tag on your entire post.
Short answer: For me, fiction needs to be internally consistent. It has to have some level of plausibility within the context of the story and world it inhabits. I am an atheist which means I don’t just accept things on faith alone. And that’s what the writers gave us tonight; an episode that said, “just accept this plot turn on faith, we cannot offer any rational explanation.” I can suspend my disbelief for Fantasy and Sci-Fi stories because they can be written with plausibility and consistency within their world.
And so, Bae meeting Emma on blind luck alone is so implausible it broke my belief in the story.
This story doesn’t rely on faith alone. It is relying on mythology based on the idea of fate and destiny. I think Emma wearing a red scarf was to denote this idea that there is a red thread of destiny/fate.
She was the end of the curse. She was the savior to break the curse and free Storybrooke. Bae on the other hand is the beginning of the curse. He was the motivation in having the curse cast. So in terms of storytelling, that is actually a great plot and really does emphasize that FTL characters are connected to each other with these intricate red threads of fate/destiny.
Emma had to meet Bae. He was the one that could help progress her destiny. By their being together Henry was born. August then had Henry arranged to be adopted by Regina. That eventually led to the curse being broken.
The whole show runs on some faith but more in the belief that as much as one can see into the future, the red thread of fate/destiny will have people land where they need to. All of these characters are much more closely related like a grand puzzle each has their own piece that fits into the bigger picture–perhaps the magic within calls to each other unknowingly, or their roles help create that destiny (an example is the story between Grumpy and Nova–had he not been born a dwarf set to mine the mines, he would have never come across the fairy dust that would lead him to Nova).