*Emma still doesn’t know the whole story about Milah. *Emma now has memories that should make her understand why Neal made the decision he did when he left her to be the savior all those years ago. *Emma and Neal haven’t gotten to really talk about anything yet. *Hook’s bad past hasn’t come up again aside from Regina’s awesome comment about how she hasn’t forgotten about his dirty work with GOAT (thank goodness someone remembers…). *Emma & Neal have shared a bunch of emotional and loving type of moments together but have not yet shared any type of kiss. *Leaps of faith were taken by all three members of the SwanFire family (Emma on the boat, Neal with the shadow, Henry with the pixie dust). *We haven’t seen the dreamcatcher or swan pendant play a big part in things yet but the Bug was front and center in taking Emma & Henry to safety (and eventually to Neal’s home in NYC…) and all three of those things are big time SwanFire symbols.
One of my biggest fears is that half of these have happened off screen. ONCE has a tendency to take important emotional character development moments and put them off screen instead of letting the viewers see it.
However, for things that are this big, I don’t think A and E would deprive us…no matter what the outcome of the triangle would be.