The amount of ways to get to the land without magic is now officially ridiculous. Not that it wasn’t ridiculous before but really show, just STOP.
And once he does get home, should Emma/Charming et al forgive him right away? Is there still more atonement to make?
Emma has already forgiven him so nope no atonement needed there. Charming hopefully will need some more convincing. If the writers are smart and they want us to like Hook then they need him to do atonement. The problem is I don’t think the writers have any desire to change our decision on Hook. They know that there is a large population of the show that likes him and will never find fault with him. I mean look at this episode, we have Hook who is acting like a complete jerk yelling, screaming, making decisions for other people and not apologizing to anyone for his behavior. Hook fans will simply say well he is upset, but the rest of us (at least I) see him acting like a pirate who cares about no one but himself.