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Reasons! Plot! Or maybe because Hero! Rumple will win and snuff (twitch) out the darkness which has been Emma’s endgame all along. They basically gave it away this past week when she said something about using all that power for good.
I thought the point of that dialog was that the darkness won’t be destroyed in the end, but rather someone will be worthy enough to wield the power without turning evil and use it to protect people. It’s Merlin who seems to want to go with the easy solution of just destroying it altogether so they’ll “never have to ask that much of anyone”.
That is true, yes. But I meant that Emma embraced her powers in order to do something that is good. I don’t know that Emma is evil; she’s just using the power covertly in order to bring about the desired end. She has yet to do anything Dark One-ish in present day.
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"To be honest, I no longer understand the purpose of “tethering” now that we know that the Season 4 explanation — tethering the Darkness to a person in order to contain it, then forging/creating the dagger to control that person — is no longer valid.
Here’s a theory, in light of recent spoilers. We know that Hook’s name is on the sword. If the sword now works much like the dagger, then the obvious explanation is if Hook killed Merlin. The current portrayal of Hook in Camelot is of someone progressively spinning out of control (another Desperate Soul?), and he’s already lashing out at Merlin anyway. Now that Merlin’s under Arthur’s thumb, it seems like neutralizing him would be a good idea. Many here have speculated that Merlin’s dead by the time they get to SB. So perhaps Hook decides to kill Merlin on his own initiative, or Merlin essentially requests Hook to kill him (to prevent the damage that Arthur might do with Merlin at his beck and call), as the most likely candidate to take one for the team, since Merlin’s and Hook’s predicaments are similar.
The only problem with this is that it’s maybe a little too obvious …
To be honest, I no longer understand the purpose of “tethering” now that we know that the Season 4 explanation — tethering the Darkness to a person in order to contain it, then forging/creating the dagger to control that person — is no longer valid. Here’s a theory, in light of recent spoilers. We know that Hook’s name is on the sword. If the sword now works much like the dagger, then the obvious explanation is if Hook killed Merlin. The current portrayal of Hook in Camelot is of someone progressively spinning out of control (another Desperate Soul?), and he’s already lashing out at Merlin anyway. Now that Merlin’s under Arthur’s thumb, it seems like neutralizing him would be a good idea. Many here have speculated that Merlin’s dead by the time they get to SB. So perhaps Hook decides to kill Merlin on his own initiative, or Merlin essentially requests Hook to kill him (to prevent the damage that Arthur might do with Merlin at his beck and call), as the most likely candidate to take one for the team, since Merlin’s and Hook’s predicaments are similar. The only problem with this is that it’s maybe a little too obvious …
The other problem with your theory is that Excalibur is totally blank in present day Storybrooke. In 506, we got clear shots of both sides of the sword. No name is currently attached. Had Hook killed Merlin, his name would already be on the sword.
Or maybe because Hero! Rumple will win and snuff (twitch) out the darkness which has been Emma’s endgame all along. They basically gave it away this past week when she said something about using all that power for good.
You’re likely right. In Camelot, Emma did seem to question if she could be the one “to have the darkness, but use it for good, use it to protect people” but Merlin said not to let those thoughts tempt her.
Merlin: “someday perhaps there will be a person who’s worthy to hold that much power and not let it burn through to darken their soul.”
I predict that person isn’t Emma but Rumple, which Emma seems to have figured out in the present day. Emma said Rumple is “the purest hero who had ever lived” because his heart is a blank slate. She probably intends to use him to cut the magic and immortality from her the way Merlin intended.
However, why Emma as True Love incarnate, is unable to do so herself still has me scratching my head. It seems like Emma should be the one to save herself, as she did in 3×22. And why she needs Zelena to tether Hook to the sword doesn’t compute either. Hook is the one with the sword, so obviously, he’s not being controlled by anyone. So does Hook get the sword when he’s not supposed to? Or does Emma intentionally tether Hook to the sword in order for Rumple to defeat Hook, who now has the sword? It’s all so jumbled that something isn’t adding up. Probably, we need to see the context to make sense of it.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
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