Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221372-20150319011048/@comment-25926288-20150819112224

Snow and David aren't selfish, self-righteous, and hypocritical because they aren't one person. Neither of them are selfish otherwise they wouldn't do so many things for others. Snow has a self-ighteous streak, but that's due to the loss of her mother. They also aren't hypocritical in the slightest.

Even more so, those traits are found by nuturuing the child, not biologically. Emma isn't self-righteous or hypocrtical, but she is a tad selfish.

You go proclaiming something when you've got it wrong. Emma saved Marian because "Would anyone leave a poor, defenseless woman with a family in prison awaiting her execution?" Emma saved her not for her own ego, but for the fact that she's a decent human being. Also, she was stuck in the past and she decided to take Marian with her so she can still disappear in the timeline. Reckless is what she is, but that's a part of her character. We can't have everyone to be bland cookie-cut heroes.

Emma also tried to own up to her mistakes with apologies and making it her personal mission to help Regina find happiness. That clearly happened and she was helping Regina throughout the entire season.

Also, Henry wouldn't have died anyway because they would have changed the effects to the Light balst instead of the Light pulse. They didn't do the light blast until the finale for technical reasons I assume.