Reply To: Hook's History With the Lost Ones, Peter Pan, and Neverland

SaraTN asked this in Chat:

Sarah_TN: Question for everyone: Both Emma and Hook share the aspect that they grew up without their parents. They were both abandoned. Shouldn’t Hook be hearing the children crying too? I mean maybe that’s something they will address later, but it hit me that since only people who’ve been through what they have can hear that sound, that they are the only two in that group who will hear it.

I stared replying then realized she’d probably logged off since I hadn’t checked the time stamps!

We don’t know Hook’s true backstory, only the bit he said to Bae about having been abandoned by his father too.  What he says his father and he boarded a ship with plans to travel the realms, but when he woke up in the morning his father was a fugitive and  had fled in the night to avoid capture.  This implies Hook was old enough to remember some of the tale, but we don’t know if he was Bae’s age, or Felix’s or a little tyke barely able to remember.

We also know nothing of his mother, which is funny because that scene starts off with Hook saying to Bae something along that line that Bae had already told him his mother’s fate.    Hook never talked about his mother, why she wasn’t with him and his father.

Maybe there’s a difference between not having parents because they died and having ones who choose to leave you, who abandon you.    If you think about it, being an orphan is not enough, as Snow, Charming and Regina are now orphans, but it happened in vastly different ways (especially for Regina!)  at different enough stages of their lives that they were not forced to grow up wondering if they were ever loved (regardless of how twisted and empty the love of one of those parents might be, again for Regina), the way Emma was.   Perhaps you need BOTH parents to abandon you to grow up, or if it is just one, that it happens at a young enough age.

Or it could be that Pan just set up the sound for Emma to hear.  We can’t really draw a lot of conclusions.

On Hook’s mother–in the Disney Jr. Jake and the NL pirates, Mama Hook is a fearsome pirate in her own right, and is sort of Hook’s inspiration.  He’s totally a mama’s boy but he is written for comic effect.  For this Killian Jones version, perhaps that is already touched on by Milah being a lady pirate but they could possibly show him having been adopted as a son by a lady pirate after his father abandoned him,  We don’t know, and I’m excited to see what A&E’s take on how he became a pirate and more of his relationship with Pan and NL.