Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24846659-20160819200715/@comment-25926288-20160819203836

I'd gladly take this as a hit towards ships. XD (But then again, I'm so anti-ships).

Are they? 100% probably, 99% yes. They decided to choose the worst way possible to "test" true love. It was a vague test that Emma or any good person would have succeeded. Emma would have saved Belle given those same circumstances. She would have saved Regina...oh wait, she did that before. See what I mean? Love is sacrifice, but Emma does that for practically everyone. It's just who she is.

They also set it up terribly, imo. Hook being all "You mean we are truly in....love?" is cringe-worthy. Yes, he's had pain, but they pretty much went through this a whole season ago. Noone goes through all this trouble of saving you from death multiple times and then trying to ressurect you with no real emotion.

Everyone and their mother had TLK. Snow and David, Rumple and Belle (almost), Emma (and Regina) with Henry, and even Zelena and Hades! I can see why they didn't want to do the sixtieth TLK that season, but that test was weird and led to nothing.