Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20150614234938/@comment-24008305-20150616164958

Farerb wrote: It's not about promos and sneak peaks, it's about the writing. They always try to build up to something, but never follow through.

For example, look at Emma, they always give her attributes that she never really has, not really. Calling her the savior doesn't make her a savior, doing heroic actions does. What has she done heroically besides breaking the curse (and taking the darkness)? She barely saves people, Regina does that and the writers give the credit to Emma, like when Hook told Emma that she defeated Pan and Zelena when she wasn't, who wrote that line? The writers.

Now, lets examine season 3B, the characters have been battling Zelena for a year (not for a few days as it seems), they pretty much established in that mini season that Zelena is the most dangerous villain they have ever dealt and the only one that can defeat her is Emma (yeah right). They go into extreme length to get back to Emma for her to do.. absolutely nothing. They used their character as a mcguffin! Their main character! Sigh. Throughout the season we see that Regina can't defeat her alone, we see her teaching Emma magic so they could fight Zelena TOGETHER, only Regina realizes she can do it alone without any effort or conflict or actually SHOWING us her trying to do light magic before. No, they TELL us she could have done it the whole time, she just needed to believe in herself. So much for Snow sacrificing her husband for nothing. Oh wait...

There are lots of examples. I see what you mean. I never really bothered to look at that but you do make some very good points. Honestly, I never saw Cruella's death as Emma turning evil (nor did I see it as a 'mistake'...that sort of reasoning given by Regina to calm Emma down actually annoyed me cuz there were plenty of other ways to handle the situation...Emma knew very well what she was doing). And you're right, they never use Emma's full potential. It was nice to see Regina defeat her own sister but everything that led up to it does seem rather pointless. Hmmm. I've never really noticed how little they use Emma in recent seasons in comparison to the grand title/role they've given her on the show. But I will say that in the earlier seasons the whole Emma vs. Regina debacle really annoyed me (putting Emma up on a pedestal was much more noticable).