@Midnight Dreary wrote:
1. Why is Emma Swan the “key” to breaking the curse?
The only thing I can think of is, is that the curse needs someone ‘uncursed’ to bring back the happy endings. A facilitator. Emma is that person and if you think about her history in the real world, getting thrown into the foster care system so early and getting into trouble later in her teen years, she is the perfect person to relate to show people of Storybrooke, life doesn’t always work out but you have the power to change it if you really want to. (i.e. Emma’s speech to Ashley in the laundry room in The Price of Gold).
@Midnight Dreary wrote:
2. Will Emma Swan need to be sacrificed in order to break the curse?
This was talked about on the OUAT fan podcast in one of their feedback episodes. The theory is, if Emma does sacrifice, maybe she will literally, be re-born as baby Emma. Also, look at where she had Henry? Pheonix, Arizona. The ‘pheonix’ according to legend, is a bird that continually rises from the dead.
@Midnight Dreary wrote:
10. Is Emma Swan’s ability to tell when people are lying a mystical power?
Let the debate begin!
I think it is, but it doesn’t always work and the reason why is because she is blinded by her anger towards Regina. Anger always clouds one’s judgement.