Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.52.15.234-20130203195024/@comment-6195464-20130301152351

Her feelings of being -hurt- by Neal were never really disguised. I was referring to the comment Mr. Gold makes about how Emma "wants a second chance with that man". Emma has virtually no reply - but she didn't look like she was about to argue.

Neal is -going- to Storybrooke. But that doesn't mean he's intending to stay. All I'm saying is I would not be surprised if Tamara was the catalyst to Emma realizing she's still in love with Neal and Neal deciding he needs to stick around to be with his son (in spite of his dislike of magic). I don't think she's a lasting character, and I don't think the writer's intentions are to make us "like" her. It would be kinda contradictory to us wanting Emma to be happy.

Sort of like the introduction of Kathrine. Despite the fact that Katherine wasn't a horrendously awful person, we still weren't -meant- to like her. We were meant to like MM and David together.

It would be a huge error on the writer's parts to make us fall in love with a character who is only a means to a different end.

That's part of why I hated the Notebook movie. You're supposed to want the main characters together - but then they throw in Hot Cyclops and make him so sweet and nice and we're supposed to be okay with Ally leaving him in the dust? It was just poorly written.