Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4349034-20150330173810/@comment-5106672-20150331004101

I think the point of shoving Lily down a portal was to strand her in a place where she would not have magic as a weapon to harm others.

Anyways, I don't really understand how the spell actually affected the two girls. Lily was a liar, a thief, a manipulator and a runaway teenager, but she also helped Emma out and was genuinely trying to be her friend. Emma, on the other hand, has been a hero since her arrival in Storybrooke, but she's been a difficult teenager, a thief, a runaway and a liar herself, in her teens. She's also gone down a couple of dark roads since her arrival in Storybrooke (teaming up with Gold, then with Sidney, then with Gold again, then being generally selfish towards Storybrooke right before breaking the curse, and again when she wanted to leave her family behind to go back to NYC). So idk, she's been a good combination of good with some dark spots, which is what makes her character likable. Which means that the spell didn't really work, or what?

Also, the spell sheds a light on Mary Margaret and David's peculiar behaviour towards Emma since the Curse broke: they were kind of overbearing in their attempts to catch up on a parent-daughter relationship with Emma, constantly trying to give her unneeded parental advice even though they were the same age and she's been clearly able to fend for herself, and Mary Margaret freaked out when Emma suggested to go along with Regina's heart-ripping plan in Neverland. She wanted to rush the mother-daughter relationship to ensure they were still on time to keep Emma on the good path, or something like that.