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GothicNarcissus wrote: Eskaver wrote: HP7hghrOUaTekscrrF10rrmc wrote: Did anyone realize the crazy forshadowing? I think Emma is going to be the one that will be able to resist the temptation of the darkness and still keep its power, like Merlin said someone could one day... By crazy, you mean blatant? It was sort of obvious.

"Someone will be able to use the power for good." Adn here's the main character. It's not at all subtle. I don't think they're going down that route, tbh. They can't make Emma The Mostest Badassest Powerfulest Dark One Evvah turned good, plus previous (very strong) light magic, plus the Saviour and everything because there would be no more story to tell.

See how the other magical characters are written to fit the current or previous story. Regina gets powered up or depowered at random according to the need. Zelena must be kept powerless or incognito when she's not up to her own long-term scheaming. Cora had to go after uber-contrived plans before doing something. Ingrid sat on the sidelines until her own moment. Maleficent doesn't do much for… reasons. DO!Rumple had to either be the villain-behind-the-scenes plotting long-term and thus not taking direct action or, when "good", caged up or otherwise distracted. The Apprentice had to be hatted and then killed off. Henry snapped the reality-bending quill in half. Merlin himself is supposed to be an end-game player, yet he never showed his full power for a reason or another. DO!Emma is plotting long-term like Rumple did, and thus not taking direct action.

That is, you can't have extremely powerful magical characters and develop a storyline throughout multiple episodes. If the villains are that powerful but have no long-term plan to keep them busy and waiting, they'd wreak havoc on the spot, the end. If the heroes are that powerful, they'd resolve the crisis on the spot, the end. So a permanently, exaggerately powered-up Emma would simply not be feasible in terms of tv-series storytelling. They could go the "Naruto" route and have Emma be as powerful as a deity and actually facing off with ever-powerful deities (in that universe, Naruto was a 17 year old boy who went head to head with the 1000 year old goddess who basically blessed the entire world with superhuman abilities... Sound familiar? And then after, he's battled her descendants, each one being more powerful than the last.)