hey POM! It’s ok, you can say it. Our pirate is winning you over. He does that.
I agree with everything you have to say about Neal & Emma’s relationship. On paper, Mom, Dad & child sounds great. But that’s not always the case. I think that A&E are very deliberately showing us that they all love each other and will always be family, but Emma and Neal just can’t be together. For the reasons you gave. To quote Emma, quoting Henry “a hero would come back.” And he didn’t. Maybe if Emma weren’t the savior, it’d be different. But when you have the life she has, and the responsibilities she has, you need someone you can trust 100%. Neal made the decision to leave. It was a poor decision. I firmly believe Neal could have done things differently. But neither Emma nor Neal can change that fact, and they both have to live with it. The one huge problem I have with the plotholes and whatnot in the show is the whole ‘Neal had to leave or bad things would happen.’ What bad things? Worse than going to jail for a crime you didn’t commit and feeling like you had to give up your child? After spending 17 or so years going from house to house and never having a home?
Captain Hook and the sea. Captain Hook wouldn’t be happy with Emma & Henry because he loves the sea so much…
This is probably one of the arguments I hate the most when someone argues Captain Hook or CS. I think the writers have been clear – Killian Jones was a man of ‘good form’ – he literally walked the line of the straight and narrow. There was good and bad, heroes and villains – and absolutely no grey. And he was likely this way because his father left as a kid, I don’t believe we’ve ever been told about his mother, and was essentially lost but for his brother. Hook became a pirate because he lost that brother, his only family, in doing something for a king he learned was corrupt. Literally his entire life was destroyed.
Why did Killian join the navy in the first place? Because that’s where his brother was. “I would follow you to the ends of the earth, brother.” That’s what this man does. He commits himself to those he loves. When his brother dies, he’s completely lost – he’s going to make a career change? He needs to hang on to what little he has left, and the JR is one of the few things he has to remind him of his brother. He’s not about to give that up.
Does that necessarily mean he wants to travel the seas forever? No. The scene between Hook & Charming in 3×12 is not Hook saying he wants to go home. It’s Hook saying he’s just lost the person that’s most important to him, and being with her family and so many people that remind him of Emma is too painful. So, he’s going to look for the one thing that can give him some peace. His ship. Because if he has a goal, maybe a small piece of him will focus on that goal and not the fact that he just lost the one person he dared to love in 300 years, other than Bae, who was lost to him long ago.
Hook’s idea of happiness is not being a so-called pirate. It’s not sailing the seas. It’s the same thing that Emma’s looking for – family. Home. A place to feel welcome and loved, and to love in return.
Talking! Debating! We’re back, people!!! 🙂