Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160123195431/@comment-25926288-20160124123511

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote:

A. Emma is hardly the main character focus in much of the arcs  so 3b wasn't some novel idea of theirs. There are a lot of things we can say about Emma's role as the savior and how she didn't do a lot of saving but took the credit that belobg to other people.

But she was never treated as not the main character prior to 3B. I get that they wanted to have this "Evil vs Wicked" thing going on in 3B, and I guessed that Regina would have a role to play along with Emma ib defeating Zelena. I just never thought they would make Emma so insignificant regarding Zelena's defeat, espacially after Neal's death. They are saying that Emma is the only one that can defeat her, they cast the dark curse in order to get to her, they sacrifice Charming's heart in order to do it, only for her to do absolutely nothing, and we learn that the only thing they needed to do is have Regina believe in herself? Believe that she can be good? They never needed to go to Storybrooke, they never needed to crush charming's heart, they could have defeated Zelena in EF! 3B is the equivalent of 5A, only with Regina instead of Hook.

Here is a definition of mcguffin, tell me that that's not Emma in 3B: a device or plot element in a movie that is deliberately placed to catch the viewer's attention and/or drive the logic of the plot, but which actually serves no further purpose. Wait, why is it bad if Emma didn't save the day in 3B? Emma doesn't need to save the day every arc. I mean how boring would the show be if every arc it was just "oh a new villain, let's let Emma save us all". It's not at all. It's hilarious because 3b seems weirdly singled out when Emma didn't save the day since Season 1. Emma defeated Cora and Zelena and Ingird in impromptu battles but she never came close to saving the day until the Darkness came.

The hilarious part is I think both of you switched spectrums sort of. Emma by design of the show and them touting the word Savior every season should actually have her save the day moire often. So, if anything specific to Emma is the macguffin it's her title as it really serves no purpose then to have Emma in the plot trying her best out of duty.