Kind of backs up Happy’s point from 3×07. When Snowing et al are gone everything is awesome. Moment they come back to town, BAM! Disaster, and we’re all going to die. As nice people as they are, being friends with them is seriously dangerous. It’s like there’s another curse on them that no one has ever figured out (and thus never broken). “May you live in interesting times.” You want your happy ending, move as far away from our heroes as physically possible. Maybe Bhutan?
I have to agree with Happy that it was kind of nice for the town not having Snow and Charming around. Being friends with them is sort of like asking for trouble. Maybe everyone in SB really would’ve been better off just crossing the town line and having their memories wiped. Yet, David had to convince them to stay in “We Are Both.” If they hadn’t listened to him, then they, like everyone else would’ve escaped this new curse and just been leading normal lives in NYC or Boston like Emma and Henry currently are.
Ironically crossing the townline and erasing the FTL memories wouldn’t have allowed anyone to live in Boston or NYC since the moment they cross the line, the SB personality would take over and forget why they were at the town line and would just head back home to their house in Storybrooke.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of Felix