Oh wow! Great point, SK. It never occurred to me that CS is the ONE romantic couple that has played out in “real time” on the show. I mean, I guess I always knew it but never really thought about it that way. It’s just another thing that solidifies to me that CS are supposed to be THE big True Love couple on the show – that they would want to show the entire relationship develop from the very beginning. And interesting how we got back story on Hook before we got any interaction with Hook and Emma together. I mean they obviously had to introduce him so the audience would already know he was Hook when she found him, but they were already establishing a soft spot for him from the beginning – that he became Captain Hook because of losing Milah, even though he wasn’t squeaky clean at that time. So we were NEVER supposed to think of Hook as a villain in the way that we thought of Rumple and Regina as villains – we had much more time to see them being evil before we got their back stories. We were really supposed to focus on the fact that Hook had spent 300 years plotting revenge on Rumple for killing the woman he loved – the entire time we knew Hook was Hook because he lost someone he loved. Then we got even MORE backstory on him that showed that he once was INCREDIBLY squeaky clean. His story has really been handled totally differently from Rumple’s and Regina’s.
Keeper of Captain Swan's first kiss