Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20170119000258/@comment-25926288-20170412224240

The weird question is: Were Snow and David going to not save their friends?

There's no question that Emma would be the Savior and fulfill her destiny to break the curse. Either Snow and David would deny saving their friends for selfish resasons or let Emma live a sad life for the greater good...thus, this can't be a real difficult ultimatum. They from their perspectives just sent Emma alone for the greater good, so I can't see them backtracking and relearning the same lesson that will be in any way effective for the audience.

I mean we've seen how much they have given up. Compare Snow tearfully giving David baby Emma and David heroically defending his child and delivering her to safety to whatever we imagine in this episode, I don't think that's a wise choice.