EW Spoiler Room Sept 12: Emma's Story

[RumplesGirl]

Any scoop on Emma from Once Upon a Time? I’d like to know if we’ll get any flashbacks on her past? — Alex
We will! In fact, we’re going to get a lot more information about her childhood. “In the first half of the season, we’re going to see more of Emma’s past than I think we’ve seen in all the other previous seasons combined,” executive producer Adam Horowitz tells me. Here’s hoping that means we may get to see Neal again.

[obisgirl]

I remember hearing a popular theory that Emma’s magic possibly manifested when she was younger, possibly with her first foster family and if that’s the case, it makes sense now why they would give her back.

[RumplesGirl]

Childhood =/ = Neal, EW. For pity’s sake.

I remember hearing a popular theory that Emma’s magic possibly manifested when she was younger, possibly with her first foster family and if that’s the case, it makes sense now why they would give her back.

I think you’re right. We’ll get some information on a very young Emma in a foster home, perhaps the one that had her until she was 3?

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[obisgirl]

That would probably be the Swan family. That would be a nice parallel too between Emma and Elsa. Elsa had her ice power when she was younger and became frightened about possibly not being able to control it. Depending on how young we see Emma, it could be the same situation where she has no idea how to control her power.

[Myril]

How nice of them to finally plan to bring more background on Emma. Little late, but we take what we get, do we. And they say see, not get to know, so we are actually going to see something? Well, they had cast a girl for that blink of an eye moment past season, and she seemed quite a good fit. So when they went through the casting process already might make sense to use her for more.

The one problem I have with the idea of a magical incident/accident in her past, something she did as kid hurting someone by it maybe, is that I recall A&E saying Emma couldn’t do magic outside of Storybrooke. But while writing it already have a possible fanwank, or should I say writerwank to explain it. If I remember right they said that in regards to Emma and Henry being in New York – and at that time there was no Storybrooke in our world, erased from all memory, while when Henry was born (remember those flickering lights, the Charmed effect as I called it for myself?) and all the time Emma grew up Storybrooke was in this world, a pocket of magic, infesting our world without magic… I’m free to hire by the way.

Whatever. Good if they do more background. People have ranted that Emma is too uptight and cold, frequently blaming JMo’s acting for it, but I found she did it very right. Maybe because I seem to have a neck for microexpressions (never though though I have) so saw plenty of emotions, and that her kind of self-control being reserved is familiar to me. Maybe it helps people to connect better with her when they see what happened in her childhood.

And, geee, these magazine writers, talking about childhood and they have nothing better to do than riling up the fandom with misplaced hopes with unfounded speculation. If Neal shows up in those flashbacks it would be “fanservice” of the utterly bad and ignorant kind. And if not (which I think) fans might cry foul (maybe not anymore, by now we all should have learned some lessons).

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[RumplesGirl]

If Neal shows up in those flashbacks it would be “fanservice” of the utterly bad and ignorant kind. And if not (which I think) fans might cry foul (maybe not anymore, by now we all should have learned some lessons).

I have no idea how he could. Emma and Neal did not meet until she was 18ish, so for a childhood flashback of Emma it would not include “Neal” as portrayed by Michael Raymond-James. Perhaps teenage Baelfire played by Dylan, but not MRJ’s version. I feel like that whole line was blatant stirring of the pot on the part of the writers to cause a fight in their comments because it would mean more eyeballs which would mean more ad revenue.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[obisgirl]

Myril wrote:

If Neal shows up in those flashbacks it would be “fanservice” of the utterly bad and ignorant kind. And if not (which I think) fans might cry foul (maybe not anymore, by now we all should have learned some lessons).

I have no idea how he could. Emma and Neal did not meet until she was 18ish, so for a childhood flashback of Emma it would not include “Neal” as portrayed by Michael Raymond-James. Perhaps teenage Baelfire played by Dylan, but not MRJ’s version. I feel like that whole line was blatant stirring of the pot on the part of the writers to cause a fight in their comments because it would mean more eyeballs which would mean more ad revenue.

I agree. That or utter ignorance on the writer’s part.

I mean, there was a valid point I saw last night on twitter that Emma’s story is more than her relationship with Neal. She had a life before she met him. Her time in the foster system that we only had a glimpse of in the finale. So to reduce Emma’s flashbacks to it only being Neal related, is really very insulting to her character.

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