@Faux Pax wrote:
As for them “Shamming” Emma by turning her into a thief, i’m not going to comment on that until later tonight when i have more of the story.
Along this topic, though, there was one thing that did kind of erk me. I was always bothered by how much the whole town turned on MM after her affair with David came to light, but no one really seemed to say anything to him. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it only seemed that way. I’ll have to watch the epp again to be sure, but the best sign that everyone was against her seemed to be the slut-mobile, another construction of Regina’s.
Emma’s troubled past is part of her backstory and character. Just because she is an out-of-wedlock mother and a thief doesn’t mean that all out-of-wedlock mothers are troubled people. Ashley, for example, is for the most part a perfectly lovely person. Also, I think the show did a good job showing how unfair it was that MMB and not David got the lion’s share of the shaming, making the viewer sympathize with her rather than judge her.