JMo Leaving...
I think she made the right choice.
She saved the character from even more deterioration. I love Jennifer Morrison. I have loved everything she’s done, except the past few seasons of Once but I still say that isn’t her fault. Do what you can with the hand you were given. She was given the story line of Emma Swan’s life and ran with it. Maybe not everyone is happy with it but maybe she did it on purpose. Maybe Emma was meant to played this way purposely. Hell, maybe she thought the character was going in the wrong direction. Who knows?
As a CS AND SQ shipper, there was little for me to enjoy after things were still going pretty well in season 4 but I’m not angry. Never angry.
I’m actually happy. It takes some thought, real deep thought…but no matter how bad it seems or how upset you are Jennifer Morrison gave us something special. Especially, women. Especially, the LGBT Community. The fans. The romantics. Those looking for a hero. SQ canon or not. Wedding or not.
We got Emma Swan.
Jen brought Emma Swan to life, so we could run with her too.
SwanQueen
CaptainSwan
SwanFire
…and all the many other pairings for Emma…it’s not the end. We made these ships and they will go down with us. And we won’t go down. Not just yet. Hopefully never.
So these are wonderful…
And these are great too (mostly lol)…
But we found these too…
And while these matter, they are important…
This is one?
This is what mattered the most. Finding family and the many, many additions, however tentative and short they may have been…
And the many subtractions…
It was important. It was special. Something full of hope and potential. It started with a wish…
And a boy.
Even with all of that. Good and Bad and Terrible. For six years I did get something special. We all did.
And though it faded over time, we got this:
The princess that saved herself.
We made that real. Jen made that real. Even the writers, however strangely it has been, made her real.
So I think, I’m okay. Somewhere along the line, somewhere in the six years of Once’s existence, I think we all got what we wanted. Fanfiction. Cons. Weddings. We got what we wanted, maybe not in the same form, but we did.
We still won.