Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20170103120839/@comment-25926288-20170103162215

I won't debate something that seems immovable, but the fact that the age makes no difference to you retty much dempnstrates a bias that I can't debate. If Neal dates a '16 year old" and Neal dates an "18 year old", screams equally creepy, methinks that you just don't like Neal. I could argue that Emma lived in Minnesota (which age of consent is 16) and nothing would change.

The only bad part of their relationship is when he abandoned Emma, which hurts Emma the most. Nothing else was bad according to Emma. You can scream retcon, but it's not retconned when it was never said to be a bad relationship otherwise. All we saw was them meet, Emma and Neal having some thievery fun, then Emma get set up. The relationship was over the course of months and we only see nice things (before the set-up) in flashback. Emma never said otherwise, even in that season.

If you can't see some possibility in that, then I'll move on because frankly, I don't even like Neal.