Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6003903-20130915190245/@comment-15260863-20130922122339

Utter solitude wrote: Way to cheapen Emma's words XD I'm not saying she doesn't care for him but I do think that it was out of character for her to say "I love you" to a man she loved a decade ago and only met again three days ago, especially when during all that time he had a fiancée. What sort of meaningful conversations have we seen between them? Other than the one "I love you" what sort of indication have we gotten that there was going to be anything more between them? I also have a beef with Neal considering that he said "I love you" to Emma literally seconds after his fiancée - the woman he was going to marry and spend the rest of his life with, a woman who he was supposed to love above all others - committed an overwhelming betrayal and tried to kill him. I mean, did he just get engaged to her for shits and giggles? I'm sure Neal must have told Tamara that he loved her, that clearly meant nothing in the long run if he can put it aside so easily.

Besides all this, Emma has trust issues and they all stem back to Neal and his abandonment of her. All through the series we've seen how much trust means to her and scares her all once. I find it so out of character for her to open up to the one who broke her in the first place, and this is the onlt reason I could find for the "I love you" that made sense with her characterisation.

Whew, sorry I didn't mean to rant. xP