Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26443838-20150618041859/@comment-25926288-20150618114531

I totally thought this was a topic, but  I'm probably mistaken....

All things come with a price.....as the plot demands.

I'm a bit cynical at this simply because they have no real magic system. The only price they pay is an arbitrary one. They reduced the rule after season 2 and only did a few good instances afterwards.

Ex: Dark Curse by Snow, effectively had no price. The cost was the thing you love most and the price was a whole in your heart, which Snow worked around the cost (okay), but Snow never paid the price.

The Savior is just a title. In show, Emma is the one who will break the Curse. That's it. They should have made it more broad and said that Emma will the Savior from Darkness, so that way there would be a clever twist between Dark Curse and The Darkness we see now. ALso, she will bring happy endings, but everyone can't be happy....oh right, for the selected few....poor peasants and villains!

If Emma loses her powers, then season 4a becomes a waste. That season already is held on a thin line, but if they undo what they managed to accomplish then .....it's like Elsa in Frozen 2 or Frozen losing her powers at the end.

Seeing that they should or could do the Darkness is divided in every heart, I still disagree with that idea for this show. Emma is suppose to bring happy endings, not bring darkness into their lives. Plus, even if they don't use the rule to a good extent anymore, having others pay your price is ineffective, unless it effects you in some roundabout way.