Reply To: The Captain Swan thread!

Yup. Yup. Yup!

Bigger picture, smaller picture, looking at the true love/relationship part of the story those who view the relationship as it has played out, as WRITTEN, see the emotional connection between Hook and Emma, now, in the present and seemingly for the future.

Neal represented the past and was a major ache to Emma’s first love psyche. The emotional memories of first love stay with you a long time. They buffed it up for dramatic effect at times and of course, to further the Henry/Rumple plotlines,  (but the whole really mediocre Tamara issue dulled it to boredom). Even excluding that blank, passionless Neal/Emma/Tamara scenario…Emma hasn’t shown, ever, a real reluctance to falling for other guys or a real pining for Neal. Her attachment has been to the pain.

Their biggest connection beyond her jail stint while Neal went free, has been Henry. She, alone, wasn’t enough of a draw for Neal to make him face the magic world he so avoided. It was Henry who brought him into things. The progeny, not the lady fair. (In truth, if they had given adult Bae half the attention and good plot that they gave young Bae, it could have been a far different, much deeper story. I wish they had. But they didn’t. )

Hook and Emma’s connection has been only about Hook and Emma. One on one. Need to need. Eye emoting to eye emoting (grin)

CS isn’t any smarter than any other *hoped for* relationship because that all comes from the heart and when the heart is concerned, rationality often vanishes! But the written words of A&E are creating a path towards the two of them, together. Long path, deep relationship. And it is their tremulous UST ace in the hole~ a huge draw to any good story.

That doesn’t mean Adam and Eddy will stop playing games (grin). They could turn on a dime and screw everything backwards. They have Robin and Regina to tempt us with as well, now, too.

I only hope that if they stay true to all the Emma and Hook (excuse me, Killian…wink wink) foreshadowing and not so subtle path that they keep the duo a very lively one. Emma and Hook can butt heads all over the place and still maintain an edgy, vibrant, witty,  sassy, serious and quite entertaining love (true or otherwise) between them.

as written…”and then the fun begins”