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CaptainEala wrote: in 3×11, when they were saying goodbye and didn’t know how long it would be until they saw each other again, was the PERFECT time to exchange “I love you’s, they gave them one of the most platonic goodbyes I’ve ever seen between people who love each other.
VERY good point! I also thought the Swanfire goodbye scene was very platonic and it’s highly likely that it was written that way on purpose.
Yeah, I mean, at the beginning of this season I was a bit apprehensive they might go the love triangle route, and put Emma with Neal before eventually moving on with Killian. But I saw very quickly before Neal came back into the picture that it’s just not in Emma’s character to do that kind of thing. Emma forms very deep emotional attachments, just like you said, so it would make absolutely zero sense for her to get with Neal again and skedaddle back over to Killian (and lol, vice-versa I suppose). It literally makes no sense for her character.
And then there’s what the show is actually SHOWING us. Every opportunity they had to give us a romantic Swanfire scene, they didn’t take it.
- They didn’t take the opportunity during their reunion in Ariel (in fact it was the extreme OPPOSITE of romantic)
- They didn’t take the opportunity outside the cave in Ariel
- They didn’t take the opportunity in Dark Hollow (in fact they gave the opportunity to Killian)
- They didn’t take the opportunity in Save Henry, when he and Emma were alone together (no Killian in sight)
- They didn’t take the opportunity in The New Neverland, when Neal specifically asked for lunch, and said that if she didn’t go to lunch he would “stop bugging her” and Emma wilfully DID NOT meet up with him
- They didn’t take the opportunity in Going Home during their goodbye (gave the romantic goodbye to Killian)
- They didn’t take the opportunity in Going Home when it, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, should have been Neal, when he had failed to find her so many times before, but again, they gave that opportunity to Killian, and all through season 1 and 2 we were watching Snowing find each other again and again
So yeah, it’s clearly not something the writers want to do, lol.
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