Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20170115054549/@comment-1867880-20170218120156

GothicNarcissus wrote:

Personal preferences and shipping notwithstanding, Once is fortunately enough of a "choral" show that it would allow it to continue even if it lost a core character or two. I, for one, think it would be harder for it to go on without Bobby than JMo: even if the present day storyline could do without both, Emma isn't needed for FTL flashbacks, while Rumple has been lurking and toying with pretty much everything that has happened in the past 200+ years of FTL history; how many flashback can you realistically write without needing for him to pop up at some point? I completely disagree. I think the show would be much harder to do without Jennifer Morrison. In my opinion, if Robert Carlyle left, it wouldn't affect the show much at all. I don't see Rumplestiltskin nearly as important as Emma. I still see Emma as the focal point of the story and the glue that holds all the other characters together. In the past, whenever Emma has vanished, the other characters have resorted to fighting amongst themselves - "The Dark Swan" and "Wish You Were Here" come to mind. On the same thread, when Rumple disappears for a while, I barely notice he is gone.