Glad to see everything is cooler around here
I actually have a question that’s been bugging me for a while.
In Dark Hollow Hook said to Emma about the kiss:
“Because I was hoping it meant something.”
And she responded with
“What meant something, was that you told us Neal was alive.”
Now, SF are saying that this means that the kiss meant nothing to Emma. And you guys have never actually talked about it here! Any insights into what Emma meant?
Here’s what I think. If Emma had been in normal walls-up Emma mode, she would have some snappy come back about the kiss. But she had already realized that she has feelings for Killian and the fact that he had already had several interactions with her where he was NOT using his usual innuendo/flirty/banner was making it easier for her to interact with him without having to be either sarcastic or to scamper away (like after he told her perhaps he would like to know who she is and after they kissed). BUT . . . she isn’t yet ready to completely let go of those walls enough to let him know that she actually has feelings for him (I think she would have in Echo Cave since she started to reach for him – the cave forces you to tell your deepest secret and while her darkest secret was wishing that Neal was dead she said she JUST realized why she was hoping it was trick that he might be alive. I think the cave could have made it easier for her to tell Killian she cared about him too as PART of her secret but her parents blew it for her).
Anyway, since she still has part of her walls up she isn’t ready to acknowledge that the kiss meant something because that would acknowledge that she actually cares for him. Instead, she does something that is really even better because it was actually what Hook REALLY needed to know. She tells him what REALLY mattered was that he told them about Neal. She UNDERSTOOD why that was a BIG DEAL for him. And Killian’s entire goal was to get Emma to see him as a man of honor. So what she actually told him was “What meant something is that you are a man of honor.”
The other important thing is that she literally doesn’t even acknowledge his question about the kiss. Because the next time he makes a statement to Emma about something romantic between them that in the entire history of their relationship we have have only seen her either respond to him with abandonment (Tallahassee), sarcasm, running away, or completely ignoring it is in “Going Home” when he tells her that there isn’t a day that will go by that he won’t think of her and she FINALLY allows her walls down and acknowledges that she cares about him with just one word “good” and the way we have known that they were destined to be together from their very first episode together – they way they look at each other.”