Ok, our pirate was being a little bit of a pooper scooper in that first scene at MM’s apt…although, yeah, I’d probably still be a little irritated to find out the girl I crossed realms to save was about to marry a monkey. So…he’s forgiven.
But that CS scene! Holy geez, it was so good! I think Hook’s going to stay just far away to let Emma make the choice and come to him, but I really like that he understands her well enough to know she’ll stay in her comfort zone and avoid it at all costs…and he’s going to make that little zone very uncomfortable indeed. I wonder if Hook hadn’t come back in NYCS, and Walsh had still proposed if Emma would have said yes. I don’t think she would. Emma needs a challenge and that was Monkey Man’s mistake – he didn’t challenge her. He was a yes-man. That kind of support is nice for a little while, but Emma especially needs someone who is going to stand up to her, push her, force her to face her fears, while supporting her, and Walsh was not that guy…or monkey. I’d like to think she made the choice not to marry Walsh because on some level she did realize that, not because Hook had come back.
Agree with your 1st to points & as to your 3rd (bolded) I agree with you, but I feel IF Emma had honestly loved him enough to want to marry him, she wouldn’t have left him like she was going to (until he went all flying ape on her). She would have found away to tell him who & what she & her family was- period.
I strongly feel there is no way she would have called it off to go rescue her parents IF she really was going to marry him- she loved the idea, not the actual man (I’m not saying she didn’t love Walsh, I’m saying she didn’t view Walsh as ‘eternal- do anything for you’ love) is my opinion on that matter & I’m not just saying that because I want her & Killian together either. IF Walsh had been more like Killian in personality & actually challenged her to be the beast version of herself, without wanting her to be any different from whom she really is, then I’d have said- yeah, she probably would have married him – sans the flying monkey part of his self 😉