Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20170115054549/@comment-1916997-20170116221501

Aine1989 wrote: Dan Fox wrote: Aine1989 wrote: If Emma leaves, the show ends, simple as. It would be like having Sherlock without Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Who without the Doctor That's actually a tossup because apparently the protagonist of The Vampire Diaries was put to sleep and has been gone for over a year along with Derek Shepherd from Grey's Anatomy and Abbie Mills from Sleepy Hollow, and those shows are still going. However, I can definitely see OUAT be cancelled without Emma as Castle did because they tried going on without their lead woman (Detective Kate Beckett) and the whole show got axed. One of those "Pull the plug on the fans and they will do same right back." Thing is, Once is a different kind of show to those. I don't know about Castle but TVD is (from what I saw of it) one of those gritty dark death everywhere shows. Once is a fairytale and Emma is the princess, therefore the show will end with her Happily Ever After Once is a drama about classic stories (many of those stories being fairytales), it is not a fairytale in its own right. I do agree that Emma will get a happy ending as the main protagaonist, but the show could still go on with other characters after that happened.