Emma’s Interagation

[mich7]

@Kellyn1604 wrote:

It’s going to be a really good second half of the season! I am so looking forward to seeing Gold’s trip, Greg’s interactions in town, and hopefully, Belle, getting her memory back….if I have to wait until next season for Rumple and Belle to get back together I might get a little blood thirsty myself…

Would be nice if she got her memory back as fast as Archie was freed from Cora and Hook but I wouldn’t bet on it…I don’t buy all this “gotta have angst stuff” by breaking couples up or having triangles…I think they could keep couples together and just have the angst within the relationship itself. Anyone who is married knows you can have trouble within a relationship without outside factors (like another person or in this case amnesia).

I also don’t think they have to have angst to be interesting but then that might just be me (I like seeing couples happy and having fun). Not against the angst thing ( I was the world’s worst to use it when I used to write fanfiction)…I just think it’s gotten a little overused on tv these days.

[CrownedWithLaurels]

I too was a little confused by Emma’s interrogation. But after thinking about it for a while, she really couldn’t have gone all Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and slammed her hands on the table saying, “STOP LYING TO ME!!” (Like I wanted her to)
That would have given away a lot, and it would be a strange thing to do to someone who has just come out of surgery. He would be taken aback, and know something is up. It continues to confuse me, however, that she was so nonchalant in the way she spoke with everyone afterward. My only idea at this point, like everyone else, is that she didn’t want to stir everyone else up.

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[merryleeplaying]

I kept expecting Emma to ask more basic questions like where are you from? where are you going? What do you do for a living? any people we need to contact about your condition? For a couple of reasons 1) to see if what he says matches any documents found on him or in vehcile, 2) Memory issues, 3) to give the audience more info.
Asking about contacting others would give a heads up about the possiblity of more outsiders coming.

[Nobody]

@MerryLeeplaying wrote:

I kept expecting Emma to ask more basic questions like where are you from? where are you going? What do you do for a living? any people we need to contact about your condition? For a couple of reasons 1) to see if what he says matches any documents found on him or in vehcile, 2) Memory issues, 3) to give the audience more info.
Asking about contacting others would give a heads up about the possiblity of more outsiders coming.

I agree but the more I thought about it the more I figured if she asked a bunch of questions like that he might reciprocate…..If she doesn’t ask too many questions he might not ask too many questions. I think she is going to have to be pretty subtle in finding out info on him so as not to peak his interest too much.

[PriceofMagic]

I think Emma’s line of interrogation was too focussed on whether or not Greg saw something that it gave the impression that he may have seen something he shouldn’t have seen.

Like MerryLeeplaying said, Emma should have asked more basic questions as well so as to at least give the impression that this was just a routine interrogation on the details of the accident.

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[Slurpeez]

I just listened to the official ABC podcast for 2×18, in which Adam and Eddy clarified that since Greg came to SB expecting to find magic, he was telling the truth when he told Emma he didn’t see anything unusual. As adult Owen, Greg already believes in magic, so it’s not unusual for him when he sees Regina use magic. So, Emma’s lie-dectecting skills haven’t lost their edge since Greg was being truthful.

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[Myril]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

I just listened to the official ABC podcast for 2×18, in which Adam and Eddy clarified that since Greg came to SB expecting to find magic, he was telling the truth when he told Emma he didn’t see anything unusual. As adult Owen, Greg already believes in magic, so it’s not unusual for him when he sees Regina use magic. So, Emma’s lie-dectecting skills haven’t lost their edge since Greg was being truthful.

Thanks for the info. (finally bothered to hear the podcast myself)

Somehow I can live better with the simple insight, that her lie detection thing is an acquired skill, not superpower, a skill some people indeed have, but that skill is not infallible, it can be influenced by own expectations and feelings, can fail, and besides a good liar is a good liar. Not to mention there is no such thing as infallible lie detection, no human skill, no machine can do it, even mind readers would be wrong sometimes (surprise, people lie even to themselves and choose to believe it’s true). For crying out loud! Stupid pop- and pseudo-psychology, it’s an urban myth, one which admittedly sells quite well (in the very sense of selling, some people make good money selling lie detection things). Infallible lie detection is fiction not science. And for OUaT I say it wouldn’t do any good to the story or for Emma to make it some superpower, just let it be a human, fallible skill and work with that.

*headdesk* 🙄

So, okay, Greg didn’t lie, because he is a believer and seeing magic was nothing unusual. Yeah, right… even if he is a believer magic is something so rare in our world it would be still an unusual sight. I don’t mind good fanwanking, and good wacky explanations by writers, but this is wonky, or poor in my opinion.

Seriously, it makes more sense to me that Emma’s skill has lost some of its edge for the time being. There is so much going on in her live, that I expect some emotional turmoil going on behind her cool, all-understanding-and-forgiving zen hero behavior. I just don’t buy that she is all cool with things.

*takes a breath*

Emma did a lousy job in this interrogation of Greg. One open question, no digging deeper, all satisfied when it seemed like Greg has seen nothing which needed to be explained away, let him go for texting… no good job on Emma’s side. Even a bad liar could have gotten away, and I think Greg has learned to be a good liar. he used deflection technique quite well in this interrogation, changed the subject to him texting while driving – so obvious, but Emma fell for it.

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[angiebelle]

I think Emma just really wanted it to be true that Greg was not a threat. She was worried about having to deal with the reality of an outsider finding out about everything and all the people of the down getting up in arms, So when Greg claimed not to have noticed anything, she breathed a sigh of relief without bothering to go any deeper.

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