Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-22525977-20131028205139

Be that as it may, (a) Neal is not prescienct and therefore has no way of knowing and (b) one of my biggest pet peeves is characters who just go "oh okay" and flop around like dead fishes when someone tells them that things will happen this way because fate said so. Fatalist characters are annoying and passive and generally not very nice people, because they're the types who will say "I have a chance to try to stop bad things from happening, but why bother because I'm not the one destined to fix stuff." The "Chosen Ones" who act because fate says so are incrementally beter, because at least they get stuff done, but I'm not impressed by anyone who does the right thing because destiny! rather than doing the right thing because it's right.

And, all that aside, I don't think abandoning Emma to jail and skipping merrily off to Canada was the right thing to do by any stretch of the imagination, anymore than Milah leaving Rumpel was the right thing to do (although far more understandable in her case, since she was utterly miserable and didn't leave because Pinnochio showed up and told her she should).