Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140530013558/@comment-24674051-20140603165805

I think that Emma deserves a lot of the blame. She knew the story of Back to the Future, she even made the comment about Marty McFly. So she was aware of the consequences of changing the past. (though she probably never expected to be in that situation). Also, Hook wisely pointed out time and again about the consequences of changing anything, as well as Rumple's warnings.

However, as someone else pointed out, given the same circumstances, I think a lot of us would have made the same decision as Emma, so we can't totally fault her.

I think Rumple deserves some blame for failure to think, though. When Emma and Hook showed up with Marion, he had a multitude of options available for dealing with Marion. He could 'poof' her back to Regina's dungeon (and probably would have, since he didn't care what happened to Marion). If he was being a little more generous, he could have just 'poofed' her to some other realm (Wonderland, Oz, LWC, VE, or some other place we haven't seen yet). Although there's no telling what that solution would have caused.

From a storyline perspective, though, I think Marion being around is just a bump in the road, and a necessary one. Since Robin thought her dead, I am not surprised at his reaction to seeing her alive, but from a romantic standpoint, where are Robin's feelings? I think that, ultimately, they are with Regina, and this is just a test.