Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151007195419/@comment-25926288-20151129193356

8Rob wrote: I think they are afraid of their own storyline

Because they didn't know how to make Emma evil in 5A and then get her back to normal in 5B.

They didn't want to take this too far, because they were afraid people won't like Emma anymore

First, they made up that "Darkness in your head" thing to justify Dark Swan, implying that she was being controlled by the darkness inside her.

And now, it turns out she was being just an antihero the whole time

And the end of the day, being the Dark One meant nothing for Emma and I bet it will mean nothing for Hook too because we all know he won't kill Rumple

At this point, the most evil character is still the Evil Queen, and she wasn't the Dark One.

This Dark One curse seems like a joke now. Like the Dark Curse at this point Joke's on you! Didn't you know? They dilute everything. They make the most vicious killer into......not that bad of a guy. The DC was devalued in season 3 and then further devalued now. The DO curse was greatly hindered in this season. The world travel was lesened in season 3. Even terrible spells like Shattered Sight was made into a joke.

One fo the problems is that they never want to go back to bleak, serious Once, but they try to distance themselves from being only campy-fun-fun.

The evil Queen wasn't all that evil. Remeber in 4b she was a spastic clown cracking jokes and yelling that was sad at sometimes.

But nevertheless, Nimue still keeps that DO intergrity unlike the last two DOs Emma and Hook