Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26088930-20150320022454/@comment-4427410-20150925195858

While the end may or may not be Emma ultimately giving in, I have a feeling what may happen is that we'll see the journey up close and personal.

''Emma's role as "the Dark One" is not interesting to me. She won't be resisting her own personal flaws/evil. She'll be resisting some entity within her. This is basically a story about possession. And for me, it's not a real struggle for Emma, in compare to the moral struggles that Regina, Snow, Charming and other characters have endured and are still enduring.''

Emma does have her flaws and unpleasant traits. But aside from her penchant for emotionally shutting people out, the series has never explored this or faced it. And this new storyline won't give writers the opportunities to explore Emma's more unpleasant side. Instead, this storyline will be all about her trying to fight some external evil force that is trying to take control of her body. This is what Rumpelstiltskin's character has been reduced to, thanks to this "entity" that has popped up. And honestly, I'm not interested. I've seen too much of this in other works of fiction. When the time comes when this show allows Emma to face the uglier aspects of her personality without some outside force like "the Darkness" or whatever that thing is called influencing her behavior, then I'll be interested.