There is always the possibility that the actor wants off the show, so Emma might actually die.

Another possibility is that the oracle, who could be Jafar or spelled by Jafar, and Hyde are unreliable and that what we are seeing is just a moment in the future and not Emma's death. The whole all saviors die and all saviors have a villain who brings them down, that could all be fake. I think Aladdin is going to take out Jafar, he isn't dead after all, so Emma should be fine too. Unless Jennifer Morrison wants off the show, of course.

I think for me the real questions are: Will the shears of fates actually be used and on who? Why isn't Regina there when Emma is fighting Gideon? Has Emma being spelled to have these visions and tremors?

Possible outstanding tools that could be used: The sand that Rumpel used to cause him and Belle and Gideon to share a dream, for Snowing's curse. The shears, of course, on Gideon or a Fairy. The dragon, does he know anything, and the Hammer of Hephaestus, it gives magic to those who don't have magic possibly being used again. Belle mentioning Zelena using the wand to portal out of town, will someone portal out of town.

They might right Jennifer off, but that would also mean the end of the show.

To your questions - judging from this show, the shears will pop up in the hands of someone like Zelena then will be forgotten after a few episodes. Your other two questions are very intriguing.

Maybe Regina stays in the Dream World. And, if Emma does not die, I think it would be interesting if she was cursed to have those visions.

I don't mean write off, but that Jennifer might not sign on for the next year. I think they would have to promise her that was the end for her and i am not sure that Adam and Eddie are interested in ending the show. I think they would go on without her if they could. They don't care about the integrity of their story, in my opinion. They just care about having a job.

I think the shears are either for Gideon, but more likely for the Black Fairy or the Blue Fairy. Regina isn't going to stay in the dream world because of Henry.

I think when it comes Emma possibly being spelled, i thought about when Regina touched the girl that knew the Count of Monte Cristo, when Regina touched her body and it like dampened her magic. Then we see that Aladdin doesn't start having tremors and dreams until after he meets Jafar and looks into his staff in the Cave of Wonders. Emma had her first tremor/dream after she touched something near the dirigible and i don't know if those are related. We then see Emma go to meet the oracle and look into the eyes of the red glowing staff that the oracle had and i just don't know if possibly something is going on there.

That is, of course, in the world where this show makes sense. This show has not for a long time connected things that happened earlier in the season to things that happen in the end. Now the writers are just trying to trick people, so they don't figure out the end, instead of building towards the end through proper and consistent foreshadowing. It is possible that none of that means anything and the oracle and Jafar and the staff with the glowing red eyes and the bird didn't mean anything at all.

I'm actually very interested in the Charming Murder Plot - but I'm also worried it will lead no where

Yeah, i wonder if that will go anywhere either. Charming said his father was sad at home before he died, so maybe that had to do with giving Charming's twin, James, to George. We know Regina knew about the coin and told Charming about it, so does Regina know too or did the Evil Queen just learn that all from Hyde?

The information on the card from Rumpel was "a shepherd found in the wreckage of a cart. He was stabbed and dead before the cart went off the cliff." Charming's father was stabbed, so does that mean it wasn't a magical person like Rumpel or Regina? That leaves George who has James and that Charming's father may have seen Jame somewhere and wants him back and George says no. That also leaves Hook who could have been involved. He liked to get drunk in bars and he also accepted murder for hires, so if George wants to take care of Charming's father then that would be a way to do it.

Snow was still a young child like Charming, so it probably wasn't her. It could be Regina, but this probably takes place before she became Queen and killed Leopold and learned magic. It will be interesting to learn, but i don't think it will cause any lasting issues for the group even if Regina or Rumpel or Hook are involved.

That's the problem. This show always forgives someone after an episodes or so and the storyline is forgotten from there. I wonder why they even came up with this unless it was going to have implications. A murder plot would've been more intriguing in the first season and if it had been someone else, but now it seems rather late. I'm truly only interested because it was one of the three only new plots this seasons, and one of those (Gold and Regina) flopped completely.

Yeah, for sure. The biggest problem of this show is that the good guys forgive the bad guys. That should not be a thing. Real people do not forgive their would be murderers. Emma and Hook should not be dating. Emma and Regina should not be friends. Snow and Regina should not be having heart felt conversations. It's bad writing. That is all that it is. And maybe they could have complicated those issues, showed Snow considering Regina her mother, for example, and made some of those relationships feel earned, but they didn't.

That is why i think nothing will really come of the Charming's father murder plot point because nothing ever comes of that stuff. It is swept under the rug with no proper resolution after a few episodes, sometimes after nothing. It comes out and they hug and it's over. We will see, i guess. It seems like Rumpel and Belle will be getting back together after how they treated one another this season, so they are still doing the sweeping under the rug thing. I think that will continue.

I want it to be Hook murdered Charming's father because George hired him because that makes sense, but it could just be random whatever too because the show doesn't actually make sense.

Redemption arcs can work, but this show doesn't handle it. You can't simply redeem yourself in a matter of a few minutes. It's not like Hitler could be redeemed just because he shot himself, right? If they made these characters more realistic and if Regina had not done all that she did, I could somewhat buy her arc, but with each season the more they try to develop her more wicked wrongdoings in her past are revealed.

Well, Regina isn't exactly Hitler, but yeah they went too far with her. They went too far with all their villains, Hook and Rumpel too, for it to make sense that they are part of the group or even used as a resource. They could have made them villains without having them be what they made them, which is pretty much apologetic of their evil. They could have even made them all killers without it having to go into serial killer, mass murdering, killing for fun territory.

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Well, Regina isn't exactly Hitler, but yeah they went too far with her. They went too far with all their villains, Hook and Rumpel too, for it to make sense that they are part of the group or even used as a resource. They could have made them villains without having them be what they made them, which is pretty much apologetic of their evil. They could have even made them all killers without it having to go into serial killer, mass murdering, killing for fun territory.

Yeah. It was a pretty bad analogy, but it was the only one I could think of. As for the rest, I completely agree. I guess we'll see what's in store for these characters next Sunday!

I'm starting to put things together (based on several recent interviews) that the series may be ending with 6B. Either that, or several of the mains will be leaving and they will be doing a spin off type scenario. I'm thinking we will see a lot of wrapping up of storylines for characters who will be leaving, i.e. Emma marries Hook and they live happily ever after, Rumbelle reconcile and move on, and several other storylines have final resolutions. I think the show is in a good place to end, and they could easily wrap up storylines. I'm pretty sure Jennifer Morrison and Robert Carlyle do not intend to continue, in which case they are either going to have to end the series or spin it off with another character so Emma isn't the focus anymore.

I think Emma getting her happy ending and Robert are the only two things people are watching for.