Reply To: Why are the villains smarter than the Charmings?

[Hook’s Girl]

ready_to_rumbelle wrote:

RG, I agree that the villains must have a great plan and be super cunning. But, unfortunately, this season it is a bit at the heroes’ cost.

I do agree with that. It would be better if Snow weren’t so “let’s be BFFs!!!!” with the perfect stranger who likes to touch her stomach and wears gaudy jewelry despite being a peasant in another land.

Yeah. You’d think a woman claiming to be a peasant would be awfully suspicious wearing a huge green emerald around her neck.

The Charming’s and really most of the good guys tend to make decisions by what their hearts are telling them, to believe & trust others based on words, makes decisions based on emotions, more right brained. The villains, like Rumple, Regina & Cora use their brains more, strategy & proof, plus they need to shut down their emotions in order to the awful things they are capable of doing, more left brained.

Now Emma is a combination of both, whole brain. She thinks through stuff and can strategize. She has to being a bails bond person. But she also uses her gut instincts and her emotions can cloud her judgement and cripple her when she can’t control them. I think Emma becoming more of a Mom to Henry has helped her to learn to control her emotions better, though. I think her control or lack there of her emotions is why her superpower sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Interesting how it always seems to work on Hook though, regardless of what she is feeling at the time.

I think Killian is whole brained too. He’s not a true villain. He can think, rationalize, strategize and focus for years on something, like his revenge. He can shut down his emotions to allow himself to do awful things. Yet when he lacks control of his emotions, that’s what caused him to seek revenge and dwell on it for so long in the first place. He also makes quick decisions based on instincts and his emotions at the time. I think it was his powerful emotions that made his quick decisions to become a pirate, to run off with Milah, to suddenly drop his revenge, and now to fall for Emma so hard happen. It’s one reason why I like Hook so much. Just a thought.