Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25733960-20170312061043/@comment-31564770-20170512143105

Alright guys, given Rebecca's announcement that she isn't returning, but that the reason is a descision by the writers and not her, I'd be willing to bet money on them killing Zelena off. On one hand, I feel like they've been desperately trying to give her a purpose for existence since S4 when they resurrected her by having her somehow cheat death and go kill Marian. To me the whole thing was, "So what could we do that's totally unexpected and out of left field? Hey, I know! We could have Zelena not actually be dead and now she's tricked Robin and she's pregnant!" But then they couldn't find a way to kill her off again so they just kept her but didn't know what to do with her. If you haven't picked up already, I'm one of those people who's pretty indifferent to Zelena, and I'm mostly ok with her likely death. There are just two reasons I'm a little miffed- firstly, Rebecca is so fun as a person, and I think she gave a lot of life to the cast, especially at conventions. Secondly, are the writers that hell bent on on ruining Regina's life AGAIN?! She just made up with her sister, who is her only biological family member she has left. Now it looks like Zelena's gonna die. What next, kill Henry?

Anyways, on to my real theory here: what'll go down with Emma in the finale. When I heard Jen was leaving, but had also agreed to be in one ep in a potential season 7, which has of course now been confirmed, I tried to think of a way that would both be a good wrap for Emma's story but also leave the door just the tiniest crack open for a 1-ep reappearance. And I found one. Here we go: at the end of the finale, Emma fights the final battle with the BF. She wins, cuz good always wins in the end, but at great cost. For whatever reason, she has to give up her humanity to save the realms, and she ascends to become a sort of guardian of the cosmos, an immortal force of good that's part of the universe. Emma is present in the cosmos, but can't interact on a human level with her family anymore. In her one ep next season, the remaining group encounters her for whatever reason, and there's a tear-filled moment of Emma speaking to her family for the last time before her existence is fully bound to the fabric of the universe and her sense of time and such disappears.

What do you all think?