Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160502010041/@comment-27213286-20160504151457

Jordy267 wrote: Eskaver wrote: The problem with the test isEmma would have saved anyone regardless of who was put on flames from their group.

Imagine if it was Henry, her parents, Regina, and even Belle. She'd save them all, so that test was more of a test of greed/ambition than TRUE love. Agreed, but then can't true love be between anyone? Emma managed to save Henry with TLK, so isn't one of the messages of the show that true love isn't just romance? It annoyed me when Hook said true love is the rarest magic of all when by now everyone has true love.

However I don't know what you mean by greed/ambition. How would Emma saving Regina or her parents be an act of greed? There is no love truer than that between a parent and their child. Other than that we have seen 3 people woken up by True Loves Kiss. 3 cases of True Love (4 if you count Emma/Hook) is still rare. True Love when not between parent and child is still (in my opinion) you having to find that one other person across the realms that is your sole-mate. I think it is a once in a lifetime thing at most. Some get lucky and will always find that person but others may never even meet that person. Not all love is True Love and not even all unconditional love is True Love, True Love is something beyond and even deeper than that. I honestly think Rumple loves Belle unconditionally but they do not have True Love as evident by him being unable to wake her. Again this is just how I perceived the concept based on what the show has shown us.