Is it weird that I felt the most genuine Neal emotions in tonight’s episode (apart from Rumple, of course) came from Hook? If I didn’t feel as though those scenes were cynically setting up CS and stepdaddy Hook, I would have actually liked them unreservedly. Colin played it with a suitable amount of subdued guilt, and he actually for once seemed more concern with Bae’s legacy than anything ulterior involving Emma.
I mean, I still think he’s a long way from being consistently written, but it’s something.
Gotta admit, I half tuned out for those scenes, because the poor excuse for a CaptainFire scene last week had left a bad taste. Maybe if it had have included an apology for having turned him over to Pan, then it wouldn’t bug me so much that Hook is chilling with Henry and making like he and his dad were always buddies, but the fact that Hook hasn’t accepted responsibility for the crap he did to Bae has become a pet peeve. Maybe I need to rewatch these scenes and properly pay attention this time, to see if I can read any guilt in his expression.
Judging by the promo for next week, Zelena does seem to possibly be familiar with Hook, and while if Hook has known stuff and not told everyone I’ll appreciate that because it would be a return to his two faced S2 self which is when he was interesting to me, I’ll also probably be calling for his head, because he knew stuff that could have helped, could have prevented Neal’s death, and he didn’t do it. He’d have let Neal down again, in the worst possible way, and then tried to be buddies with his son in the aftermath. And if that’s the case, they’d better bloody well not gloss over it, they’d better show him accept responsibility and endeavour to make up for it somehow.