Magic is wonky, so when people try to argue about it sometimes, there’s logical problems. Emma’s magic nature is not just her parent’s love flowing into her. She is special beyond that due to the prophecy but also just who she is. We don’t know exactly all the “logic” in the show behind her magic, but she has it, just as Regina has it. Yet Snow and Charming don’t seem to, and it was implied their parents had true love. I doubt Aurora’s baby is going to do anything big, but we’ll see, Ashley’s didn’t. So when people try to argue about Henry, I don’t think that is the way the writers would want to resolve the triangle. It would feel like a cheat to me, telling me rather than showing me the love or lack of it.
I agree to an extent. Thing is, there will have to be a way that they conclusively prove which side of the triangle is TL, (something more obvious than including the TL music theme in their scenes). One pair will have to have it, otherwise the triangle will never truly end, (unless one of the guys dies, which I think is highly unlikely, and would be the worst possible way to resolve it), and dear sweet baby Jesus do we need the triangle to officially, canonically end at some point in the near future.
The only way we’ve seen TL proven thus far is with TLK breaking a curse. Charming woke Snow (and Snow woke Charming), Rumple started to change after kissing Belle, Abigail un-golded Frederick, and then we got the non-romantic TLK with Emma and Henry breaking the curse too. The whole TLK causing magic to happen as proof feels sorta overdone, but they’ll have to prove it somehow.
If they wanted to prove it for SF, I think Henry having an un-take-able heart would be acceptable. They’ve set up that super special baby of TL Emma can’t have her heart taken, and now they’ve got her son in a situation that it’s gonna take magic to get out of, and the guy holding him hostage wants his super special Truest Believer heart. If it ends up that the thing with Emma’s heart was deliberate foreshadowing for the same thing being true with Henry, which would be both an actual plot point of Pan’s manipulation of him, and would have the bonus of proving his parents’ TL, killing two birds with one stone, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised.
Hook and Emma have what I’d call moonlight romance–it works by the light of the moon, when its just the two of them, no one’s watching and they forget a lot of things about themselves, because its hard to see in that light so it all looks better. Neal and Emma are sunlight romance, because nothing’s forgotten, there’s no special atmosphere, they will come back together with full awareness of each other and their goals/dreams and it won’t matter who is around to see. The moon has no light of its own, no matter how bright it might appear, for it is but a reflection of the sun. As J.Mo said, her attraction to Hook was complicated by his reminding her of Neal.
This is perfect! So beautifully said.