Sneak Peek #2 is up…
Hook’s face when Emma asks where Neal is. Poor Hook
I know, my poor Pirate!!!
I think a lot of 3B is going to be us seeing poor Hook reacting to things based upon his attempt at TLK not working. And because he thinks it didn’t work (not that it COULDN’T work) I think he assumes that Neal must be Emma’s True Love. But I think he is going to be torn a lot of the rest of the season. He loves Emma too much to give up (he does realize that she is HIS True Love after all and I think he knows that she does have some kind of feelings for him – think this is where he is going to be very confused) but at the same time, because he loves her so much (and because of his history with Bae) he is also going to want to make sure he does everything within his power to ensure her happiness – which I have the feeling he is going to think means getting Neal back to her. I think he is going to be a jumble of conflict in 3B because on top of all this I think he and Emma are going to end up getting like best-friend-close working together (which WE know is a good thing but he is going to think is painful but the only way he can be around her, and the best he is ever going to get).
This is why I am torn about how the TLK is going to work in the end. I know most people think that Emma is the one who is going to be saving Hook with TLK because it parallels the Season 1 Finale and I can see why that makes sense but I actually thinks it is more dramatic if Hook is the one who saves Emma. If we go all of 3B with Hook thinking that TLK didn’t work because he ISN’T Emma’s True Love and then something happens to Emma that requires TLK to save her, it is much more dramatic for Hook to think that someone else has to save her or that no one can save her (because the required person is dead) and then find out at the last second from Charming that his first attempt at TLK didn’t work because Emma didn’t know who he was. I think it would be cool to have Daddy Charming have already figured out that Hook is Emma’s True Love and have to explain that TLK didn’t work for him and Snow when Snow lost her memories and then have to convince a horrifically despondent Hook (who thinks he is losing the woman he loves for the second time) to give it another shot to save Emma because he is convinced he is his daughter’s True Love.