Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160123195431/@comment-25926288-20160123224953

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote:

A. Emma is hardly the main character focus in much of the arcs  so 3b wasn't some novel idea of theirs. There are a lot of things we can say about Emma's role as the savior and how she didn't do a lot of saving but took the credit that belobg to other people.

But she was never treated as not the main character prior to 3B. I get that they wanted to have this "Evil vs Wicked" thing going on in 3B, and I guessed that Regina would have a role to play along with Emma ib defeating Zelena. I just never thought they would make Emma so insignificant regarding Zelena's defeat, espacially after Neal's death. They are saying that Emma is the only one that can defeat her, they cast the dark curse in order to get to her, they sacrifice Charming's heart in order to do it, only for her to do absolutely nothing, and we learn that the only thing they needed to do is have Regina believe in herself? Believe that she can be good? They never needed to go to Storybrooke, they never needed to crush charming's heart, they could have defeated Zelena in EF! 3B is the equivalent of 5A, only with Regina instead of Hook.

Here is a definition of mcguffin, tell me that that's not Emma in 3B: a device or plot element in a movie that is deliberately placed to catch the viewer's attention and/or drive the logic of the plot, but which actually serves no further purpose That's light magic in and of itself.

But I think that was because they reset the story at the start of 3b and you can't really reset Emma's role. I will say that Emma's still the main character but you could tell definitely that it was Regina focused. But Emma is hardly ever important to the defeat of the villain.

So, yeah, Emma was the red herring and was made to be pointless when she was needed most, but she was still obviously the main character. You could use the macguffin thing for season 1, sort of.