@craxyfox wrote:
either way it was not part of her destiny.
Yeah, that’s basically what it comes down to. She wasn’t able to have her happily ever after at that point in her life, (meaning she didn’t really escape the curse after all), because if she’d got that, then she wouldn’t have become the person she needed to be, and wouldn’t have been in the right place at the right time to break the curse. If she, Neal and baby Henry were happily living free in Tallahassee, then the inhabitants of SB were stuck and Emma wouldn’t have discovered who she really is or found her parents. Would that really have been a preferable situation? August’s actions may have set Emma up for some tough times, but that was the path she had to take. It’s not like he just went to screw up her life because he had nothing better to do. His actions had a purpose, and the hate he gets for having broken them up is just shoot the messenger stuff IMO.