Reply To: Emma's Role as "The Saviour"

[kfchimera]

I think they do a lot of things for reasons, but NOT everything. Especially when it comes to marketing, and especially because sometimes they change the plot direction.
This is more or less how TV writers operate, in the middle between a master plan, with room to embroider in details that might even change significant things. As proof, look at Hook, Belle, Ruby, Hatter and Mirror. These characters roles changed due to various things related to actor availability, fan reaction and copyright issues. The entire S2 storyline was reworked when they got rights to NL, and Ruby’s role became smaller and Hook’s bigger. Belle was added in due to the actress being available for more than they thought and positive fan reaction. Hatter and Mirror have unresolved plot lines that have to hang until the talented actors can portray them–unless they want to recast like they did with RobinHood (and they said they do not want to recast, meaning, there is room to move the story around). So some of this moving around means to me, that some things just happen in the story and not every detail has significant meaning.

I do think the use of “Savior” for Emma is largely a marketing handle, just like putting Wizard on Rumple, it totally is trying to create familiar roles so people can relate to the story and the characters. At the same time, I think Emma is not done with her role as Savior, so we may see that again in promotion. It is who she is in the story, the main protagonist moving the plot forward.