Emma Swan Character Analysis

[charming]

Emma isn’t a coward nor is she scared. She like she said, “did not sign up for this.” Pinnochio is to blame for all of this. Had he not left her she’d believe. He made a promise to stay with her after Geppetto extorted and played everyone’s life in FTL to get Pinnochio into the wardrobe. When you have lived a certain way for 28 years and one day you are expected to believe that FT characters are really, you are a daughter of two Ft characters, your son finds you and tells you all of this as well as saying you need to save everyone in FTL, how is anyone to react? “Yeah Ok. I’ll just go save FTL. Let’s go.” She’s reacting like anyone who has just heard the most outrageous story and was expected to believe it. She needs to see it first hand.

[hjbau]

I think Emma’s reaction is very realistic and for her to believe easily would not make sense in my opinion. I do think she is scared out of her mind though because she just can’t consider everyone needing her and that it is her responsibility to save everyone, but i think she will overcome that fear and do it.

[sam993]

She did do the wrong thing and she was scared and she did runaway from her problems rather than confront them. She was being a coward, by not facing them, but that doesn’t mean she embodies a coward. She did one cowardly act.

August said that “You’re our only hope” and Emma said “Then you’re all screwed.” She has the ability and the facts to believe that everything is real, but she chooses not to because she’s running away from her responsibility. I am not saying she is the ultimate coward, but that she refused to do the brave thing. If she said, “Fine, I’ll confront Regina, I’ll destroy the curse, I’ll bring back everyone’s happy ending.” You’ll say she’s brave, right? Well, she didn’t say that. She, rather than face Regina to take back Henry, she ran away. That was a cowardly act. I didn’t mean to imply that Emma embodies a coward.

[surayya]

@Sam993 wrote:

Great Emma’s characterization in this episode. We finally see a bit of her we hadn’t seen before, which is her being a coward essentially. Yet, I think most people in her situation would have done the same thing.

So in the Stranger, August points out that Emma doesn’t want to believe. It’s not like Emma doesn’t think it couldn’t be real, that SB could be FTL, but that she really, really, really doesn’t want that to be so. Emma doesn’t want to take up the responsibility of being the savior. So her magic is preventing her from seeing the truth. It’s granting her wish. Shows how powerful she is. Her magic is sooo subtle that she doesn’t even know that its affecting her.

All I can say to this is ‘I’ll show you a book about Aliens & then YOU have to totally believe they are real & to boot it’s also your job to save everyone on the planet’

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how would you react to this info? 🙄
Because if someone rocked up to me with the evidence Emma has & was serious about me believing in something so totally ludicrous- Id be freaked out (I mean EVERYONES well being becoming my own responsibility 😯 & OMG- this person REALLY believes what they are saying) & probably pissed off to boot (I mean how would you feel if someone wanted you to believe in something insane/ socially unacceptable)- it’d be like an insane person REALLY wanting you to believe in their delusion- which ONLY they can see – that’s a big ask for anyone 🙄

[hjbau]

Emma ran for a bit, but she isn’t going to keep running. I think it is completely unreasonable that Emma would believe and completely reasonable that she would be scared. I think that it has to be something big, something more then people just saying they think it is real for her to believe. And being scared in the moment is not being cowardly, in my opinion. It is sort of like if you do one evil act you are not just evil, but if all you do is evil acts, causing pain and suffering, then i say a character is evil.

[sam993]

@Surayya wrote:

@Sam993 wrote:

Great Emma’s characterization in this episode. We finally see a bit of her we hadn’t seen before, which is her being a coward essentially. Yet, I think most people in her situation would have done the same thing.

So in the Stranger, August points out that Emma doesn’t want to believe. It’s not like Emma doesn’t think it couldn’t be real, that SB could be FTL, but that she really, really, really doesn’t want that to be so. Emma doesn’t want to take up the responsibility of being the savior. So her magic is preventing her from seeing the truth. It’s granting her wish. Shows how powerful she is. Her magic is sooo subtle that she doesn’t even know that its affecting her.

All I can say to this is ‘I’ll show you a book about Aliens & then YOU have to totally believe they are real & to boot it’s also your job to save everyone on the planet’

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how would you react to this info? 🙄
Because if someone rocked up to me with the evidence Emma has & was serious about me believing in something so totally ludicrous- Id be freaked out (I mean EVERYONES well being becoming my own responsibility 😯 & OMG- this person REALLY believes what they are saying) & probably pissed off to boot (I mean how would you feel if someone wanted you to believe in something insane/ socially unacceptable)- it’d be like an insane person REALLY wanting you to believe in their delusion- which ONLY they can see – that’s a big ask for anyone 🙄

But then how come she didn’t see the wooden leg? That wooden leg is apart of reality, if she simply didn’t believe it, then she would have seen it. No magic needed. Regular, human eyes should have revealed August’s leg. August says her denial is so deep it’s affecting her to see the truth. She doesn’t want to believe it. She’s telling herself not to believe it. She’s asking herself not to believe it and she’s granting her own wish. Some part of her knows it’s true. It’s a difference of opinion, I believe she knows it and doesn’t want to face it. She’s running away from it!

[angiebelle]

I think that there is finally a spark of “what if this is true?” in the back of her mind, but that she is in a huge state of denial. If it’s true then she has a lot of responsibility on her shoulders that she just doesn’t want. Her rational brain is fighting with everything it’s got for this not to be real….the idea that she is the savior is just too much.

[charming]

@Sam993 wrote:

@Surayya wrote:

@Sam993 wrote:

Great Emma’s characterization in this episode. We finally see a bit of her we hadn’t seen before, which is her being a coward essentially. Yet, I think most people in her situation would have done the same thing.

So in the Stranger, August points out that Emma doesn’t want to believe. It’s not like Emma doesn’t think it couldn’t be real, that SB could be FTL, but that she really, really, really doesn’t want that to be so. Emma doesn’t want to take up the responsibility of being the savior. So her magic is preventing her from seeing the truth. It’s granting her wish. Shows how powerful she is. Her magic is sooo subtle that she doesn’t even know that its affecting her.

All I can say to this is ‘I’ll show you a book about Aliens & then YOU have to totally believe they are real & to boot it’s also your job to save everyone on the planet’

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how would you react to this info? 🙄
Because if someone rocked up to me with the evidence Emma has & was serious about me believing in something so totally ludicrous- Id be freaked out (I mean EVERYONES well being becoming my own responsibility 😯 & OMG- this person REALLY believes what they are saying) & probably pissed off to boot (I mean how would you feel if someone wanted you to believe in something insane/ socially unacceptable)- it’d be like an insane person REALLY wanting you to believe in their delusion- which ONLY they can see – that’s a big ask for anyone 🙄

But then how come she didn’t see the wooden leg? That wooden leg is apart of reality, if she simply didn’t believe it, then she would have seen it. No magic needed. Regular, human eyes should have revealed August’s leg. August says her denial is so deep it’s affecting her to see the truth. She doesn’t want to believe it. She’s telling herself not to believe it. She’s asking herself not to believe it and she’s granting her own wish. Some part of her knows it’s true. It’s a difference of opinion, I believe she knows it and doesn’t want to face it. She’s running away from it!

I agree. You never answered the question about the book and Aliens and saving the planet.
I know my reaction and answer to that which would be the same as Emma get my kid and run. I’d do that and I do not have a kid or wife or both. She is human. Just like everyone beating down on David for doing the things he does, he’s human. You are asking someone to believe that people you are meeting are characters in stories you read as a child and are here. Tell you the truth I would not have gotten as far as she did. I’d just drop him off and say see ya kid call me, email me and hey you know where to find me.

[sam993]

@charming wrote:

I agree. You never answered the question about the book and Aliens and saving the planet.
I know my reaction and answer to that which would be the same as Emma get my kid and run. I’d do that and I do not have a kid or wife or both. She is human. Just like everyone beating down on David for doing the things he does, he’s human. You are asking someone to believe that people you are meeting are characters in stories you read as a child and are here. Tell you the truth I would not have gotten as far as she did. I’d just drop him off and say see ya kid call me, email me and hey you know where to find me.

Well…I didn’t know that was a serious question, but I would probably not believe in them. But Emma witnessed strange things happening in Storybrooke that put her in this state of denial. You guys say that she’s human and she did the right thing, but I say that she should have faced the problem head on. My point is that she is far from the savior that Storybrooke needs. The writers wanted us to see that in the last episode. So now they can throw a bit of mess towards her way and build her into the right kind of hero.

[charming]

@Sam993 wrote:

@charming wrote:

I agree. You never answered the question about the book and Aliens and saving the planet.
I know my reaction and answer to that which would be the same as Emma get my kid and run. I’d do that and I do not have a kid or wife or both. She is human. Just like everyone beating down on David for doing the things he does, he’s human. You are asking someone to believe that people you are meeting are characters in stories you read as a child and are here. Tell you the truth I would not have gotten as far as she did. I’d just drop him off and say see ya kid call me, email me and hey you know where to find me.

Well…I didn’t know that was a serious question, but I would probably not believe in them. But Emma witnessed strange things happening in Storybrooke that put her in this state of denial. You guys say that she’s human and she did the right thing, but I say that she should have faced the problem head on. My point is that she is far from the savior that Storybrooke needs. The writers wanted us to see that in the last episode. So now they can throw a bit of mess towards her way and build her into the right kind of hero.

True, since she’s arrived there have been strange things that happened. She was a witness to a few of them, while others she was part of. One can’t help but say how much more evidence or proof or convincing do you need?
Emma’s been running most of her life and apparently away from things. She’s never had anything to run towards.

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