Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151007195419/@comment-26443838-20151129221045

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: 8Rob wrote: I think they are afraid of their own storyline

Because they didn't know how to make Emma evil in 5A and then get her back to normal in 5B.

They didn't want to take this too far, because they were afraid people won't like Emma anymore

First, they made up that "Darkness in your head" thing to justify Dark Swan, implying that she was being controlled by the darkness inside her.

And now, it turns out she was being just an antihero the whole time

And the end of the day, being the Dark One meant nothing for Emma and I bet it will mean nothing for Hook too because we all know he won't kill Rumple

At this point, the most evil character is still the Evil Queen, and she wasn't the Dark One.

This Dark One curse seems like a joke now. Like the Dark Curse at this point They stopped taking risks with their characters and storytelling.

Remember when Gepetto's parents turned into wooden dolls or when Regina killed Graham or when Ruby turned out to be the wolf and ate her boyfriend? Remember how exiting it made you feel? Remember when Cruella used her mother's own dogs to kill her mother, and then skinned the dogs to make a coat for herself? Oh wait, that was 4B. So saying that they no longer take risks is laughable. Remember when Zelena chopped her own hand off? Or when they showed Fergus being run through by Arthur's sword, which is something they didn't even show in the Pilot? (Charming sees one of his knights being stabbed by one of Regina's knights in the back, but the sword doesn't come out the other side...) I guess because they don't want us to see it, only to have us picture it. After all many of the backstabbing scenes we see always appear to be zoomed in to the face instead of also showing the chest. Fergus was probably the first for us to see the chest stabbed.