Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20170710210232/@comment-5899967-20170718181840

Eskaver wrote: What bothers me is the fans across the web don't seem to recognize that there are more than two ways that a character can be written off/be off screen. All I've seen is:

"Emma is pregnant with a baby!", and

"Oh no, Emma is dead."

But it never seems to occur to them that there are 500 other options and that just because the actress only signed for one episode, doesn't mean anything about the character. Like we might not see Lee Arenberg again. Does that mean Grumpy's pregnant? Does it mean that Grumpy's dead? No, neither. He could just be living out his life, or cursed, or drinking at a tavern.

Plus, we could totally just see the back of an extra to play Emma in some scenes. Not like it's impossible.

Just a bit ranty because the fandom seems to polarize themselves between two options all the time when there are a whole spectrum of possibilities. The thing is that Emma is not some random character, she was the protagonist, you can't write her off in a number of ways, like, she's not home so she can't say good bye to Henry when he leaves. She's the Savior, if a major crisis happens this season, with her husband and kid involved, why isn't she present? It'd be weird to have her still around and not saving the day. I'll be mad if this is her final appearance ever, and the explanation they give for her absence is "Oh, she's just in Storybrooke off-screen". Besides, her parents will appear somwehre during the season too, without her, they have to explain that as well. That, if this is really her last episode.