Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20140207012130/@comment-4839682-20140208185703

I think it would make sense to use Emma: whoever sent everyone to Storybrooke, good or bad, probably wants the characters there permanently. Emma is off in NYC, the other characters may not be able to/be afraid of leaving Storybrooke, so there's a reasonable assumption no one would get to her. And even if someone did, she doesn't remember them. I'm sure the idea that someone would leave, find Emma, and convince her to come to town was extremely far fetched.

Which, on a side note, makes me wonder what Regina thought during the Curse. She knew Snow's child was out there, somewhere, was she dreading the child's 28th birthday? XD Or was she confident that, without Snow White, the child won't come back to haunt her? :D