‘Once Upon a Time’ season 2 spoilers: Could Emma Swan leave Storybrooke?

As we near the season 2 finale of “Once Upon a Time,” there are of course a number of questions that have to be addressed. We still don’t know what Tamara wants, how Captain Hook will be stopped, or even if Regina has finally found a way to take the darkness from Mary Margaret’s life forever.

As important as all of these questions are, there has been one other one that has bubbled more or less underneath the surface for almost the entire past few weeks: are we really going to be seeing some of these characters make the move back to the fairy-tale world? We know that there is going to be a beanstalk that provides them that option, and David has already made his desires clear that he wants to go back.

So is Emma going to be keen to join them? It doesn’t quite seem that way, at least based on what executive producer Edward Kitsis is saying at this very moment to TVLine:

“The thing with Emma is a year ago she wasn’t a believer, and it took Henry eating an apple turnover and going into a sleep curse and her fighting a dragon to realize it all was true … Then she went back to [Fairytale Land] and found it to be burnt and full of ogres. And like anybody, Emma struggles with this. She’s a person who has found that she has magic inside her and isn’t quite comfortable with it yet, so the thought of going back and having that be her life is very frightening.”

In the end, we also have to remember it’s possible that this option may not even be on the table. If you remember that the final two episodes of the season are named straight out of “Peter Pan,” Neverland may be a place that ends up taking precedence over the land that many of our characters here originally called home.

If you want to watch a new preview for “Once Upon a Time” season 2 that puts much of the emphasis on Captain Hook, just be sure to check out the story over at the link here.

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