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WinterWoodsGal wrote:

Utter solitude wrote: Emma was legally an adult, she was emancipated. 17 or 18 doesn't matter in that instance.

There aren't always black and whites, there's many gray areas. This show loves grey areas. They may love it but it's sort of hard to see the grey wall when you have white paint and black crayon. Like most, I love complex characers (Rumple) and I love the complete black figure (Cruella). But their grey is like telling is Emma's light burst is white or a silvery white or if Mal's smoke is black or just a dark grey. A trio of analogies.

They have the grey areas, but they minimalizes the black or maximize the white and we no longer see the grey. Oh, 24 year old guy impregnanted and betrayed/ left Emma, oh how horrible! What a horrible person. Oh, it's Bae, the shining white light of joy! A dark grey area painted over by white = light grey and then they paint it over with some love! Still grey in the nd and I liked that.

Example, not to badger Hook fans, but Hook was a dark grey character with loads of white light thrown on through (inorganic) characterization. He's a hero! Um, at least they had Hook disagree or I would have liked his character even less. That's why I like Rumple., He had grey and then more grey, some dark, some light and he realizes it and accepts it.