Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20160723224038/@comment-25926288-20160812233541

I'll address those questions in my opinion, but first: The heroes hardly get everlasting side effects doing bad things. It's hilariously more daring to do good than bad. Now,

1. What makes some more qualified to be Saviors than others?

In-show answer: We don't know.

Out of show answer: The writers just thought of that recently.

2. If it's attached to a Dark Curse, why was Regina's such a big deal?

In-show answer: We don't know yet. The Dark Curse is still a little of a mystery.

Out of show answer: The DC has sort of been devalued/deflated with the constant recastings (really, such a void-leaving curse has been cast 5 times, yet there doesn't seem to be any real consequences now.). Plus, I doubt they thought this through prior to this season.

3. If there's more than one Savior, why is it such an unknown?

In-show answer: People kinda had their own lives to be living. XD

Out of show answer: Savior was a title that Rumple used to label the product of true love that will break the curse via his prophecy. Then, they deflated the importance of being a product of true love. (Don't believe me? They call Emma's magic Savior magic and it's distracting.) The prophecy was deflated as it was overly hyped (which Rumple as the exposition man tends to do that only means that the writers hype their own material a bit much). The curse has been deflated as I already discussed. The Dark One mythos has been kind of a drag, cool, even cooler, had some logical inconsistencies, then had a terrible end that I think actually was saved by Rumple....then it was just dragged through the mud. So, the logical next step was.....The Savior. XD