But at 3AM, I pondered it differently. Henry asked for the keys. In the back of my head, I hear Neal’s voice, “You could have just asked for the keys.” In that same scene, Henry referenced being in prison. I am now dying to rewatch that scene and see what ELSE might be packed in there, because I suspect there is more.
Henry: Fine – I’m – going home.
Hook: You’re running way.
Henry: Whatever.
Firstly, HOME. The “home” he was intending to get back to is the city that was also Neal’s home. He was gonna get back home by stealing the Bug, which was his parents’ home when they were on the run, before deciding to settle down.
Of course, his saying that he was just gonna drive to the nearest bus station is a callback to him taking the bus in the Pilot.
The Game Of Thorns truck is in the background, which I figure must have some significance, otherwise why haul that thing out of storage. It could just be the imagery of the thorns behind Hook, everyone’s been thinking lately he smells like a rose, when actually, nope, totally thorny.
With regards to the song lyrics – holy cow. I actually came to post because something dawned on me about them (get there in a sec) but that line about the dove… holy cow.
The lyric that stuck in my mind is, “Makes one man weep, makes another man sing.” This afternoon, it occurred to me that perhaps they would set it up such that each guy in the triangle would be one of those characteristics – and they did. In this episode, they posthumously *continued* showing us the triangle – Neal, whose power of love was so great he was able to temporarily overcome magical absorbtion to save his family; Hook, whose inclination was to revert to lying, kidnapping, etc. Who is weeping, and who is singing.
You’re all up in my brain again because I’d been thinking about that weep/sing line for the last couple of days as well. Neal isn’t just singing like some canary at the end of this ep, he’s screeching like a big, powerful…well, hawk, speaking of those song lyrics. Hawk, dove, Swan, Phoenix the freaking fireBIRD. I’m just saying.
And yeah, by the end of this ep, Hook had some stuff to weep about alright.
So if we are supposed to see this as a Snow-Neal parallel then I don’t think it’s TOO insane to say Neal is the one made to sing. (And I believe we ARE supposed to see that parallel – in 312 Hook assumed it was her (Charming’s, “It does sound like you,”) and we were reminded again in 3×19 that it was supposedly Snow who sent it.)
YUP!!!!
Whyyyyyyy bother? Seriously, A&E, seriously? You don’t develop character after death!! They continued to have this character sacrifice himself. To illustrate him as the better suited of the two rivals – in this same episode, in which they showed Neal again a hero, they showed Hook again a villain. And if triangle is dead, finit, kaput, why bother?
Why bother indeed?! Why use that one scene to continue to build Neal up as being the biggest damn hero on the show, in the same episode where they paralleled Neal with Snow to an extent, and showed her bringing her TL back from death, if it’s not all connected somehow? Seriously, he’s an EPIC HERO! I’ve even seen posts on tumblr from CSers saying how awesome and selflessly heroic he is, (we’ll ignore the parts where they say that he ships CS because that’s laughable). You’re gonna make him possibly the biggest hero the show has seen, and then not have a twist that allows for him to get his happy ending? Really, show? If they don’t have that twist planned, then I dunno what the point is of them continuing to show how awesome he is. That scene could have been tacked onto the end of 315, (and then just used 319 to fill in the gaps of the Curse casting that led up to that moment), but instead they had it as a stand alone scene to highlight Neal’s heroism to the max.