I really liked this meta. Summed up a lot of my feelings.
I am confused about the timeline!!! Help! So the curse is cast. Zelena messes with it then goes to make herself and Rumple the memory potions. Right after Neal sends the message/potion to Hook. From what was said when CS first arrived in Storybrooke it seemed like the curse JUST happened. So maybe no more than a week between Hook getting the potion, getting to Emma, making her remember (which took at least 2 days) and then getting back to Storybrooke?? Thoughts on this?
My timelines guess…?
1 month – Hook tells the Charmings he was always a pirate and takes off presumably to rebuild a crew and find the Jolly Roger
3 months – Hook has a skeleton crew doing “Land Pirating”. Meets up with Ariel and chooses his ship over heroism/love. Does not appear to believe in love.
4-12 months – ?????
~12 months – Hook gets message/potion
~12 months + a few days?? – ?????
~12 months + ~week: Hook finds Emma and believes that Emma is his TL enough to immediately try TLK. Hook has somehow separated from his crew, which resulted in them getting cursed but not him. Jolly Roger is MIA again.
I have a feeling we are only going to see Hook receiving the potion/message and doing whatever he does to get to Emma. That still leaves a huge chunk of time unrevealed and no clear reason why he went from not believing in love to believing Emma is his TL. Seems like a big leap and I don’t think his regrets over Ariel are enough of a reason for him to think TLK is going to work?
I love this show but sometimes it makes me go cross-eyed trying to figure out the timelines.