Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-29714904-20160821170603/@comment-29714904-20161008021854

CoolDudeAl wrote: EnterTainxx wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: KnocknickKnock wrote: Emma was only suppose to be the savior that broke Regina's curse nothing more. Because of that one act people believe she can save them from anything but the vision Rumple had only saw Emma as a savior when it concerned Regina's curse.

As far as Main character status is concerned Emma is no more a main character then Henry, Regina, or Rumple and the Charmings. She is also only one of the many protagonist on the show even by season 1 standards. The central protagaonist of Once is Emma though. The first episode shows how she came to be and why she is important. Lost also had a large ensemble cast, but Jack Shepard was always the central protaganist, as similarly to Emma, the first and last episodes focus on him (I'm sure the last episode of Once will focus on Emma). Emma should have been a powerful force of good. In season one they had it set up like a typical good vs evil show, but in OUAT evil is just a lable you can remove at will. Even the main character turned evil and commited hanus acts. Theres no truely good powerful characters to really look to  The evil 'villions' done more good than emma. They should have exstablish emma as a sereous threat to evil eirlly on. They should have gave her something, like expert fighting skills or anything. Something that shes better at than other characters. She was too weak and vanerable for too long. Evil had all the power while good characters was at their mercy, it got so annoying, and left me waithing for some kind of powerful hero to help. They gave us the dark one and the evil witch who killed millions and let emma stay weak and helpless. Your oversimplifing all the characters. Furthurmore, if the hero of something (book, movie, tv show, etc.) has no issues defeating anyone, you don't have a good plot. Who wants to watch a show where Emma could just snap her fingers and solve all the problems?

"Oh, Jafar is in town? *snap* He's dead."

"Someone stole Belle's baby? *snap* Here, I found him with magic."

"Little Timmy fell down a well? *snap* I saved him."

That is not a good show, and no one would watch it. And honestly, Emma does have a lot going for her. She is a powerful magic user and she has real world detective skills. Most likely Emma will be the key to taking out the final villain on the show, but she has to earn it. Having Emma do everything the whole series, would make the series boring and repetitive.

It actually dosnt have to be easy for her. She only needs to be a threat and a decent hero. She needs to be able to put up a fight at the very lease. For the first three seasons she was pretty pathetic.