Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20170710210232/@comment-5899967-20170718190107

But, as I said, Emma is still too important to go off screen because her whole family (sans her parents) are still on the show, her son, her husband, and likely another daughter. So they can't leave her in Storybrooke, saying "she's fine, she's just not doing anything relevant" while her family is in danger. Plus, I'm convinced something happened to her, due to her bug being stoned along with a troll.