Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20160723224038/@comment-1916997-20160806034811

DracoWombat wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Topic for a different thread, but I would argue that Philora did indeed have a journey of their own. Not as well documented as some of the others, but it's there. We've had bit's and pieces of thiers documented in other peoples stories. Maybe one of these days they'll finally getting around to telling that untold story.

Back to the topic at hand. I don't necessarily consider what they might be doing with Emma's role as savior retconning. Granted, by the strict definition of Retcon, any change to what we have in the understanding of Emma's role would be considered a retcon. But my personal interpretation of a retcon is where a set of actions occurs, and some subsequent action renders the previous actions as "meaningless". Things like storylines that are subsequently explained away as a "Dream Sequence" or "Alternate timeline". The current Star Trek movie franchise is a prime example of that kind of retcon. "Snow Drifts" and "There's No Place Like Home" is another classic retcon in this sense.

In this case, I don't expect anything to change about who Emma is, or even what her role is. Instead, I expect that there will be some additional exposition about what it means to be a savior, and we'll see and meet some of the other former saviors. Retcon in the strictest sense, but should not affect the current continuity. Not only that, it could better explain why Emma is a Savior. It could also tie into the "fate wolf" Emma has almost run over a few times, that forces her into situations. We first saw it when she tryed to leave SB the first night, and it stopped her from leaving, and then we saw it again when it stopped her right where it needed so she could find Lily. Could this wolf tie into the Savior mythos? I think it could. I sure hope not! The wolf is a metaphorical representation of Graham. It'd be bad for his memory if the show tried to make it into anything else. OUaT needs to respect its deceased caracters. Robin and Regina getting some in a vault filled with beating hearts, Emma and Hook disrupting Robin's funeral... It's frustrating

Except it's really not. Graham doesn't own any and all depictions of wolves on this show. And two wolves (or the same wolf twice) have appeared to Emma, to put her on the right path, one in the Pilot when she was going to leave SB, and one when she was looking for Lily, which stopped her right where Lily was. If the Saviors have a mythos behind them, I'm guessing it will tie in with the wolf/wolves that Emma sees.