Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160201202653/@comment-25926288-20160208204000

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: Well, let me dissect it:

1. They could easily set Zelena to die as the price of ressurection making Zelena's uppcomeance be due to herself. Or they could have had some other plot device take place. If Zleena would have died, well, that could have assited in the 5b plot arc (maybe XD)

2. Not really, have Hook keep that secret to himself as he didn't know Neal sent it and Neal wouldn't know because of the memory spell. I think it still works.

3. Comatose Neal, lol. What we already had amnesia?

4. Neal doesn't go back with them and is in a coma or somewhere unknown. Journey is still Hook and Emma.

Just alter a little bit and it could still work. But you need to understand why some of those choices were made. The lips curse and 321/322 was mainly to sell Hook and Emma's relationship, nothing more. If Neal had stayed none of these would have happened because the audience already knew Emma and Neal as a couple from S2-3A. If anything, I would have expected to see the resolution to Emma and Neal's history, August connection to everything, the missing money, what happened to them after Emma gave birth to Henry. Those things you can't do without Neal and with Hook. I know that for you they are basically the same, but they really aren't. They have different dynamic with other characters, they have different history, those things affect the story. But it still doesn't change that they would have come up with a possible equivalent toolish plot device that had Neal take away Emma's magic. Probably purposefully too and turnmed it sort of into an umbalanced relationship. Easy to make it Swanfire have angst and border on toxic as they have most of the relationships.

The sotry would be told differently, but doesn't mean it'll be told better.