Emma Swan Character Analysis

[hjbau]

I liked Tangled too and i didn’t think i would either. I still think the songs are not as good as the old ones in it, but much better then the Princess and the Frog. There were two or three that i really liked. And the story was more of the classic story going on which was good. I did have some issue with the animation. I don’t really like how Rapunzel looked. There was something about her body proportions that just seemed off to me at times, but then again she was a person who was supposed to be supper strong because she could go swinging around by her hair all day long.

My little cousins are obsessed with that movie though so maybe it would be a good idea to do that story even though it seems too modern to me at times. Though my little cousins are too young to watch ONCE.

[Aliasscape]

Tangled was on my list of movies to watch for the Once hiatus and I got it done. I hated the songs basically. They all seemed half-heartedly done. “Oh right, princess movie=singing. Check that off.”

I think Jennifer Morrison has talked excitedly about Emma being her own brand new fairy tale.I think that’s the story Emma would have. About the Princess, orphaned in a strange land and abandoned by Pinocchio, raised alone and unloved, returns to save an entire world, fights dragons, breaks curses with a kiss, and will probably fight the evil queen possibly even eventually Rumpelstiltskin.

I think we will continue to see the type of “memorable details” of classic fairy tales be things Emma faces but not to have her BECOME those fairy tales, simply to have a story of her own. I think it’d be cool if some day more pages are added to the book to include “Emma’s story”.

I was so insulted that the first “black” princess had to be in a voodoo story, I refuse to watch Princess and the Frog ever. I hope she’s never included in Once even though the show is horridly lacking in some color. I’m trying to brush it off as Canadian casting likely having a limited pool of non-white people I guess but it is a bit glaring. (And don’t even get me started on the number of token black guy TV tropes they managed to put into Sidney Glass. )

Anyway, I think we’ll see Emma deal with internal turmoil but not of the good vs. evil type. More just fighting with her own emotional hurt/damage/walls to connect to being both a daughter and mother now.

[charming]

Next season with respect to Emma, Snow and Charming…..that is going to be very interesting. Emma knows Snow as MM her son’s teacher and the woman she lives with and prior to the “curse break” they really did not speak to each other and she never took her as mom seriously unitl it broke. The relationship the 3 will have is going to be an interesting one.

[schmacky]

[Emma and MM]they really did not speak to each other

Huh? They spoke to one another quite a lot. They knew a lot about each other and confided in one another. Emma knew about MM’s affair with David. Emma confided to MM about her feelings about Henry and even her feelings on her own parents. I think they were quickly becoming best friends, if they weren’t at that point already when the curse broke.

[elle]

I think Emma might have an easier time connecting with Snow White than Prince Charming. They both were roomates, giving them both more time together. Emma started giving Mary Margaret advice in the beginning, before it switched the other way around–and then Mary Margaret turned into Snow White in Apple As Red As Blood and was a mom to her. Emma was the only one to believe that Mary Margaret was innocent–I don’t really blame David as much as many do. He was cursed. Mary Margaret was one of the first people in the whole town to make Emma feel at home, and the latter was working hard to prove that the former was innocent. And we have already seen Emma open up to Mary Margaret, lowering her defenses slightly and confiding about her past and her guilt.

With Emma and her father, there might not be much between them because not much happened with them. They did have a few scenes together, and Emma was never harsh on him, even when he was a suspect in Kathryn’s murder. They had a few moments where Emma did look sympathetic, but never were they as close as Emma and Mary Margaret were.

As for Henry, they both bonded, but now Emma may be responsible for him–unless Regina manages to get him back somehow. She has taken care of him–she’s saved him at least twice from certain death, and she has given him affection that he does seem to crave. 😀 But I think this is going to be difficult for her, too–she now has to bond with him, like how she bonded with Mary Margaret. It is different to care for someone and not live with them as opposed to caring and living with them. She does not know his habits, nor may she be used to having a child around.

[elle]

A lot has happened to Emma for season 2. 🙂
1). How will Emma react to Regina’s change? Will she believe it, or will she not trust her?
2). Her dad being Sheriff–will they bond over it? Will she let him help her? Will they spend time?
3). Emma and her mom are spending more and more time, but they have yet to actually talk about Emma’s past. What kind reactions will come from her parents when they learn of her past and about Neal?
4). How would she react to Neal? To Pinocchio when she learns what he did?

[evilqueen]

I never like Emma’s character, to be honest and it’s nothing to do with being Evil Regal!
I mean, Madam Mayor’s behavior is COMPLETELY understandable – Emma gave up her son in closed adoption and then suddenly decided she wants to stay in his life? And then all the fighting they’ve done over him and Emma didn’t learn anything. In fact she did let Henry follow her everywhere and put him in some risky situations – it’s Regina who’s always been the responsible parent and even if a bit of a control freak but she actually took care of him, right from when he was a baby. We know the circumstances but I just felt really really annoyed with Emma in her first episodes – she trully had no right to interfere with Henry’s life. And then this ‘superpower’ that she keeps telling everyone yet it doesn’t work. If it did, would she have any concerns after she asked Regina if she loved Henry?
Eventually, I got used to her but even in the FTL she is the one who doesn’t listen to anything Snow has to say and behaves just like a little kid. Maybe that is the way the writers want to portrait her – as a lost child who has yet so much to learn but she’s just not the type of a character I like… 🙄

[elle]

@EvilRegal

To be fair, Emma did not want to get involved in Henry’s life because she did not think she was good or him–she had good intentions for him. She only got involved when she saw how Regina could be harsh to him–and she could be. 🙂

And Emma has never put Henry in danger–I honestly cannot recall any scene where she endangered his life or hurt his feelings, other than trying to take him out of Storybrooke. 🙂 Regina tricked Emma into saying how crazy she felt the curse was in front of Henry hurting his feelings. She got Archie to tell Henry that his claim was crazy and a delusion, which also hurt his feelings. He said so himself that she made him feel crazy. She kiled Graham, causing Henry to feel fear and guilt over the Graham’s death, along with thinking that Emma could be in danger.

[Grimmsister]

@Elle wrote:

A lot has happened to Emma for season 2. 🙂
1). How will Emma react to Regina’s change? Will she believe it, or will she not trust her?
2). Her dad being Sheriff–will they bond over it? Will she let him help her? Will they spend time?
3). Emma and her mom are spending more and more time, but they have yet to actually talk about Emma’s past. What kind reactions will come from her parents when they learn of her past and about Neal?
4). How would she react to Neal? To Pinocchio when she learns what he did?

I honestly think the parent daughter relationship is too wierd. I hope she doesn’t start calling them mom and dad.. If it was me who had a mother my own age I would surely not call her mom. I think realisticly (though this is of course already very unrealistic) their relationship should end up more sibling like, so they will have a family like approach to eatchother, but not parent daughter.

I think Emma and Regina is going to be forced to work together now, protecting Henry from Cora. And that there’s going to be a lot of trust-distrust going back and forth between them. But they will need to come to gether to an extent so that they can protect Henry. Maybe it will be about how to do that without using magic, cause I think in the end magic is not what’s going to do the job.

Is there anyone in here who thinks Emma Swan is supposed to ‘be’ the Pheonix/the Golden Blackbird, or am I the only one who thinks that ???

[evilqueen]

@Elle, I am not defending Regina at all, I don’t know what I would do myself if someone one day came and sort of threatened to take my kid away, and I understand that eventually Emma did the right thing staying, but the whole build up to it seemed to me artificial and, to be honest, pretty annoying. She thought she would be no good for Henry, yet she ‘sticked around’, knowing full well Regina wouldn’t like it and it would just lead to numerous problems. Regina obviously loves her son so I don’t see why Emma suddenly decided to stay right after asking Mayor if she loved her son – if she truly had this superpower, she would’ve known better that. Also, what did really Emma think she would do if Regina indeed didn’t love Henry? Take him away? Emma gave up the kid long time ago and really had no right to reappear in his life and she should’ve known better. I don’t know, it sort of makes me feel sorry as it kinda shows that it’s ok to dump your kid and then try to come back to his/her life and that the people who actually took care of this child instead are the evil ones and not the “prodigal” parent. And actually no, it isn’t ok at all. There, I said it.

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