Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-9186670-20171014025424/@comment-34397172-20180129165740

Chameleon-Guy wrote: TIAB1234 wrote: Chameleon-Guy wrote: https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/919265926846980096

Interesting conversation. They will explain later in the season Emma's absence. lol, why, she was here... I mean, she was in the episode. And what if that is not really her in the NEF but quite possibly Gothel or one of the coven witches in disguise just to get to Storybrooke to steal magic from Regina's and Gold's shop and vault? Quite possibly ep 11 and ep 13 might show and hint us what really happened.

This is a nice place for us to discuss. As I said, what's the point of episode 2 if they need more episodes to reveal off-screen "what really happened to her". She was available for that episode, so why didn't they explain a whole lot of nothing? I doubt there is anything to explain, Henry is grown up, Emma is happy in SB, and she has no idea the others are in danger, sadly. I don't like it either, but there it is... off screen explanation. The conversation between Regina and Hook was just a red herring for us to think she was dead. Don't read too much into it, and stop telling me "you don't know for sure" as an argument, of course I don't know, I'm just guessing based on common sense. Like I said in the other forum, believe all you want. I respect that. But that does not excuse what we were hinted to learn soon by the end of the season. I too am talking common sense as well. And I am not reading too much of it, I'm only trying to get ready for the upcoming unknown of what was hinted and what spoiled by a showrunner, or links to filming or some interviews (even though some are not truthful and don't give every detail) as well. Same kind of thing I am doing for other upcoming plots that need answering, like who the guardian really is, the return of Facilier and what his motivation is, who all the witches are, how Zelena/Robin got to the NEF, what will become of the tremaine girls (Lady Tremaine, Anastasia and Drizella), etc. And for the record, from what Adam has hinted, doesn't make the conversation between Regina and Hook sound like a red herring.

Even if we get to learn what happened, it can always be revealed in words. similar to how Lancelot and the Dragon told or hinted their stories of their survival and hinting that villains (who say or think they killed them) like Cora lied about their so called deaths. It sometimes happens. I am not going to make any arguments, but I am just to wait and learn what happened. It will go either way, and I will accept either one.