Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160502010041/@comment-27257290-20160504120313

Hmcooper4 wrote:

Now, as for the test for True Love, the problem wasn't that her heart was in danger. but once Emma put her heart on the scale, she started dying. She was in mortal danger. And Killian wrapped in flames was in mortal danger, as well, and on top of that was in no position to take any action. The action HAD to come from Emma, and the choice was to either take her heart back (and condemn Killian to the worse place), or save Killian and risk losing her own life. At least that's the way I interpreted the scene, others may have seen it differently. I figured out afterwards that this was the case, but it could have been made clearer somehow. I didn't know that wrapping Hook in flames would send him to the worse place wherever in the UW he was, I thought at first it was just there to cause him pain. It would have been cool if they designed a danger for Hook involving water from the River of Souls. Meanwhile, I feel like perhaps a discolouring or contracting effect on Emma's heart would have helped, instead of letting it sit there innocently.

As for the prospect of losing her own life, I don't think that's a very heavy risk in the UW, especially since this test was to see if they were worthy of ambrosia. I imagine that if Emma had died, she'd stay in the same place but as a full-time resident in the UW, and they both would have been able to eat ambrosia and leave anyway. Even if all the ambrosia was gone, the twu luv test didn't know that. So if Emma had remembered this, the test would have proven nothing. Thankfully she didn't, but the test isn't exactly foolproof.