Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151109020125/@comment-5106672-20151109045247

Another thing that bothers me is… what has become of the Hat? I mean, clearly the whole Excalibur thing is shown as pretty crucial to Dark One-Emma with the Darkness within her urging her to go to great lengths to get it, but no previous Dark One seem to have ever bothered with it before. We've only seen Zoso first and Rumple then going after the Hat to rid themselves of the Dagger, but Excalibur didn't seem much of a priority to them.

So, why isn't Emma going for the Hat (with PLENTY of people who knew her before she got the curse to rip a heart from) to rid herself of the Dagger? Is it because Excalibur is a more powerful option? And why didn't the previous Dark Ones go after it? Was it because it wasn't available until Arthur took it out of the stone? Please, Once, do tell us. Throw a line of dialogue about that. You were doing so fine with continuity so far, why this slip now?