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In a recent article we now have Adam and Eddy saying S3b’s theme is going to be the concept of “home.”

‘lt’s the same show but different. We are going to see the after effects of everything in that finale,” adds co-creator and executive producer Adam Horowitz’ ”We’re going [to] start a whole new story thread.’”. While the first part of the season was about belief and believing in yourself, ”the theme of the second part of the season, I would say, is home. What does that mean? ls it something we’re all looking for? How do you find it? How do you find something when you have it?” adds Kitsis.

“Believe a Lost Girl Can Find Her Way Home” is Emma’s S3 theme, and even though the plot is moving on from NL to Oz, the characters’ arcs will continue to develop along those lines.

Also, as I posted something in the thread about ABC Medianet article:

Master storytellers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (“Lost,” “Tron: Legacy”) invite everyone to join Emma Swan as she struggles to understand whether she belongs in New York City, where she has begun a new life with Henry, or back in Storybrooke, where things have never been simple. As she works to provide a stable environment for her and Henry, she learns that there’s no place like home. But the question remains: where is that for Emma?

I think the idea of “home” is very important to Emma. She dreamt of making a home with Neal in Tallahassee. In Nasty Habits, she looked up at light pattern Neal’s coconut cast and whispered the word “home” in the same intonation she did all those years before. It’s very interesting that she and Henry ended up in NYC, the place Neal most recently called home, rather than Boston, the place where Emma lived prior to arriving in SB.  At the end of  Going Home, she awoke at 8:15 to the song “Charley’s Girl” –a song we first heard when Neal made his debut in Broken–which again links Emma’s concept of home to Neal. It seems even when Emma is cursed, she thinks very similarly to Neal. And according to the promo for New York Serenade, Emma will rediscover the dreamcatcher Neal kept. These things seem very deliberate to me, especially in a story arc about Oz and the importance of home. Just my two cents.