Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150420004954/@comment-5106672-20150422192539

Reginaandgold101 wrote: I was so shocked by Cruellas death scene. For starters, Emma killed! This is the problem. She chose to kill Cruella. It was not like she didn't have a choice. She could have done so many other things to save Henry. Teleport the gun away, move Henry using her magic, teleport Cruella to jail or even used her magic to push Cruella to the side of the cliff rather then over it. Yes you could argue she was saving the life of her son, and like another person commented they would take the shot if need by. But that is only because you have no other means to save your child, Emma had. Plus on a side note, if Snow and Charming got there in time and explained, would Emma have listened? She was so angry at them for lying, for doing what they did, who is to say she would believe them?

Cruella not being able to kill as well was splendid. She was innocent. Beauitiful!

Emma is dark now. I don;t think she can come back from this and I have to say it makes me like Emma a whole lot more then I do at the moment. (Not really a Emma fan - she always seems like a flat character, esp compared with every other character) Now though? I can see her developing a dark streak even worse then Cruella. Well, for starters, Emma already killed people on screen: Maleficent (deliberately, and big deal she was a Dragon, or Emma didn't know Mal couldn't die), possibly Walsh (kind of accidentally, not confirmed, but neither refuted) and possibly one or two other flying monkeys (when everybody already knew they were actually people).

Then, as I already said in another thread, if she lost time poofing Cruella's gun, for all she knew Cruella could have shoved Henry down the ravine. And unless there is some scene I can't recall, we have never seen Emma being able to poof people away. With their son's life on the line, I don't think anybody would be in a risking mood and try new magic tricks. She clearly overreacted due to all the stress and anger she's been through, and that's not right, but she didn't have many options either.

Also, Cruella is definitely not innocent: she's a dangerous, double-crossing sociopath probably very able to cause bodily damage, but who happens to be magically unable to kill.

I'm not an Emma fan, but I'm just being fair: it's like when people gave Belle the side-eyes for throwing Gold out of Storybrooke: you've got an unstoppable magical husband who betrayed your trust and is on a murderous rampage, what do you do?