Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25733960-20150223011533/@comment-26255666-20150401213644

Utter solitude wrote: They explained that, to change the happy endings Emma caused in Storybrooke, she needs to be "dark". It also seems that Gold has an extreme plan he's going to carry out.

That doesn't sound like an explanation to me. An explanation to me sounds something like "Because if Emma is dark then she stops the happy endings from taking place so the Author is forced to give someone a happy ending, i.e. villains." I cant think of a single reason why Emma would need to be "dark" for Gold to change happy endings. That hasn't been explained in the show and it makes no sense to me. What does her status have to do with the Author re-writing happy endings for villains?