Regarding the question of whether Hook and Emma should break up, people are using different perspectives to decide what is “logical”. @thedarkonedearie is using a Doylist perspective while @hjbau and others are using a Watsonian perspective. It makes sense that if A & E don’t see the problems with the relationship, then they wouldn’t break up a couple they’ve invested in. But from an in-universe perspective, it might make sense in terms of character consistency, relationship problems etc. It depends a lot on which perspective you are basing your argument on.
Right, i am not in denial of the authors intent. I see the twitters, i hear the actors toeing the party line, i see the spoilers. Like i said i think Emma and Hook are going to get married and make babies and all that stuff, but in universe, that which would be logical and consistent for the characters within the show, in my opinion, would be for Emma and Hook to break up. Emma, growing up without family, her issues with trust, her issues with trust in romantic relationships specifically, the way Emma and Hook met, Hook under a pile of bodies, the lies and the threatening, the attempts to kill one another, the crass comment, Hook selling Henry’s father and Emma’s first love interest to Pan for protection, the absolute mess that was Emma and Hook being dark ones, Hook throwing himself off the building to get Emma’s attention, all of the horrible things that Hook has said to Emma about being an orphan and all that, Hook then trying to murder Emma’s family so she would be the only one left, Emma leaving the Underworld and saying that it was a mistake to ever go down there.
It isn’t going to happen, but for me, the most logical, in universe thing to happen next, would be for them to break up.