I think my biggest issue is possibly with Charming and Hook. Charming needs to learn the whole story–not just that Hook killed Robert. Charming needs to learn that Robert was on his way home, wanting to be a better man for his son, that he begged for his life for the sake of his son, and still Hook killed Robert. This is a formative moment in Charming’s young life, something that really affected him. It baffles me that Charming could ever truly accept Hook after learning the whole story. And to be fair, it baffles me that this family could ever have dinner together after all the staby-staby
Well the show preaches redemption and forgiveness so if we can forgive Regina and a bazillion other people, and Snowing can preach about forgiveness and hope all the time, and Charming sincerely meant that Killian was a different man, forgave him for his past actions, and that he sincerely gave him his blessing bc of that, he needs to forgive him for killing his father. I get it’s more personal bc it directly affects him now, but how hypocritical will it look if he doesn’t forgive him? Sure, it’s easy to forgive somebody when he murdered other people in the past (at least on this show), but now when it directly affects you…what’s he going to do?
But I do hope that Hook tells him everything he knows. He needs to tell him that King George did in fact order Robert to be killed by his men. That those men did take him out to the woods to finish him off. That Hook temporarily saved him and killed King George’s men, and then stole their valuables and killed his father, not knowing who he was. Charming deserves to hear all of that. I too am worried we won’t see it. Didn’t Charming find out that his father became a better person and wanted to come home though? I thought he found that part out. As of now, Charming thinks he has closure with all of this. The only wrinkle was right at the end with Hook doing the murder.