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I don’t believe there was any merit in what Snow and Charming did.  I do, however, think that Emma overreacted to it.  One, everything that Emma has known about the Charmings as heroes has been after this event.  This was not something that happened last week and they’ve been hiding it from her.  It was something they did “years” ago which caused them great shame and they have recently struggled to come clean with Emma about it.  The Charmings distinguished themselves from the villains by showing the capacity to immediately reflect and show regret not because they suffered a negative consequence (Rumple) but because they recognize they did something wrong in itself and harmed another person(s). As much as I’m smitten with Hook, notice that he had no intention of giving Ursula her voice back until he wanted something from her.  Given the list of truly evil things Regina, Rumple, and Hook have done, I’m surprised that the Charmings are being given much harsher treatment, both by Emma and “the show” in general.

While Emma has every right to be horrified by their choice, and disappointed with their sneaking around, Snow and Charming have not so much betrayed her as they’ve disappointed her.  I think the lesson for Emma in all of this is that no one can live on a pedestal.  She has to live in a world where even heroes fall, and she has to be able to trust even knowing that, more likely than not, she will be disappointed at one point or another.  I feel like the writers over-rely on Emma’s trust issues/background, so I hope they go more in the direction of Emma learning gradations of trust and character realism rather than this justifying Emma going dark.

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