Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

Cute pictures!

RG, I don’t think it is necessarily back sliding, for Hook to be sarcastic, but when he wants, we have seen him outright  demean someone.  So  I feel he did not go that far in his remarks to Neal.

He didn’t understand the coconut in a shadow thing, and frankly, its not like Neal explained it (and who would have thought, Shadow-stretched to sail-size!).  So I took it more as Hook being a bit peeved he had no clue of exactly how this was going to work and being asked to just fall in line, trust his ship and life to someone else.  People used to being in charge like a Captain would find that a bit unnerving, and then there’s the question of why Neal didn’t tell him the details.  Is it because Neal didn’t have time or did not want to trust him with the details?  Whatever is true, Hook might still have thought he was not being trusted and felt annoyed about that too, even though that lack of trust, if that was what it was rather than time, were justified, especially after the lighter incident.

All the same, I do think Hook felt unhappy about Emma and Neal talking and working well.  That doesn’t mean he’s all the way ready to bust out the pirate tricks and regress, but he’s human and he gets annoyed, jealous and snarky.   He’s still helping the team and he did look genuinely happy about Henry being saved.  Of course, maybe a Pan deal might look better now but I still think Hook sticks around so won’t sell them out so badly they would King George him.