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Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: CTrent29 wrote: Who wrote this episode? Who wrote it? I have never come across anything so stupid in my life. The rip off from "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" was bad enough. The fact that Leroy gave Emma credit for defeating all of the past Big Bads was even worse. But are we actually supposed to believe that the magic Emma used to heal Robin is still evil, because she's "the Dark One"? Magic is magic. There shouldn't be any dark magic or light magic. It should be neutral. It's the magic caster's intent that should be judged as good or evil. If Emma used magic to heal Robin, that means she had good intentions. The consequences of her magic should have been positive. Instead, the morons who produce this show and the screen writer would have us to believe that regardless of Emma's intent, saving Robin was bad, because her magic is "DARK". Stupid, stupid show.  By the way, I didn't mourn Percival. The idiot knew that Regina had shed her evil past. Yet, he was still intent upon getting his revenge. He gave in to vengeance, so he got what he deserved. And I'm so sick and tired of Emma's black outfits. They don't look that great on Jennifer Morrison. Nor do they contrast well with that white frosted hair and too pale skin. Christ! I miss Rumpel's outfits. First of all, GotG was not the first and certainly not the last to use the "united we stand, divided we fall" trope in regards to sharing the brunt of fatal blast. It's overused to DEATH in Japanese anime. Secondly, it's not the first time Once (ultimately owned by Disney) has unintentionally copied the Marvel Cinematic Universe (also owned by Disney). "An Apple Red As Blood" premiered the same weekend "The Avengers" did and most people saw similarities (and preferred the Once Avengers, who were later renamed the Nevengers during the Pan arc).

And to address your concerns about Emma using magic to heal Robin, my friend on Tumblr said it best.

"The act of saving someone’s life was not the evil part of it. It was the fact that in order to save Robin’s life, Emma had to use the only magic she’s capable of now - Dark Magic. And just like when Regina used it for the first time and was afraid of it because (in her own words) she “loved it,” the fear is that even though the use was for good, Emma gets a taste of that magic and darkness and loves it too much to keep fighting to be who she once was.

I actually thought that was a smart show of writing - how is Emma’s darkness going to be different from Rumple’s? She has used magic now only once to hurt and was talked down, and has it solely because she saved someone’s life."

Now that you mention that Japanese anime commonly uses the theme of people banding together to fight and defeat an enemy, I recall they did that often in Sailor Moon, which I was an avid watcher of when I was a teen.

I liked that Emma was forced into a dilemma of using dark magic again, even if she was doing it for what she believed was a correct reason, which was to save Robin's life. Kind of like what Merlin told her, even when someone does something for the right reasons, bad things will happen. I believe that's true in Emma's case because no matter how much she tries to not use dark magic or only use it one or two times for reasons she deems necessary, there are consequences to that since the very nature of her magic is dark in itself, and the fact there is the allure of power she is getting drawn into. It doesn't matter if Emma has good intentions by using dark magic because the end result is never going to be good simply because it's dark magic she's using, not light magic. In the end, while she was able to save Robin, she had to take a price from Regina for it. Whether Regina paid that price in those six weeks has yet to be seen, but the last episode seems to give the impression Regina did not and Emma didn't tell her about the price either.