Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221372-20150319011048

hi i'm Nikki and I'm new.

This is just a few thoughts I've had since watching the past few episodes and that tantalizing clip and maybe it's already been dicussed, i don't know, but Everyone, especailly the characters, seems to have skipped over this word that the villians keep using ..... Potential. Emma's potential dark heart, her potential for evil etc. Seems like a pretty basic destiction between a dark heart and a heart that has the potential for great darkness. You'd think Snow would realise this after all her dark spots.

And Emma having a darker heart than Regina makes a lot more sense when you think about it in terms of potential. She's done her rounds as a baddie and wouldn't have far to fall but Emma ..... The beast was after the one with the greatest potential for darkness. Of course Rumple who thrives on details like this would know.

As for Emma going bad, why not? She has had some seriously sinister moments over the course of the show, tragic past, lots of betrayal and loss, and a couple of selfish, self-rightous, hypocritical parents to cap it off.

This 'snowing' downfall has been coming since season 2 I think. When you think about some of the things they've done and the fact most of it was done out of self interest, and how arrogant they are about being hero's, and they're sheer incompetance, they've never fully defeated even one of their enemies as hero's. I'm not sure they have the right to sit on that high horse anymore.

Also one other idea, these extrodinary lengths that snow and charming went to to ensure Emma's magic would be good... ? Anyone else think that they might have made this situation worse before it started? Did it involve magic - which comes with a price? Did it have something to do with how Mal' lost her baby - dodgy business? If so, could Emma's magic be tainted? The charming's seem to have made the Emma-could-turn-out-evil situation 10x worse than if they'd left well enough alone.

Just some food for thought; eat up!

Nikki.

P.S. Sorry this was a long one, my first discussion, sorry for any spelling mistakes; i'm terrible. 