CS fan-girls who own ABC are the madness. They demanded more of Hook and refused to let him fade away like Red and Tink and Archie (as he probably would have).
Imagine what the story would have been like if theABCfangurls wouldn’t have mixed in. what was Hook’s character supposed to portray?
Well, let’s start at the beginning: he was introduced in an episode called “the Crocodile” if you read the Peter Pan original text, the crocodile is the MOST two dimensional character in the entire story. ALL he wants is to eat Hook. There is no substance to him at all, he was there for comic relief only.
This was exactly what Hook was supposed to be. eye candy, funny villain, all he wants is to eat kill Hook Gold but nothing more. In fact, when he was on his Jolly Roger and Gold asked if he was done trying to kill him, I was sure that Hook was lying through his teeth and he was only buying time so that he could kill him in Neverland where he was probably more “at home” and would have advantage over Gold.
What did we see in season 2? Even in Tallahassee, he wasn’t flirting specifically only with Emma, he was flirting with everyone. EVERYONE! He was meant to be this way. Eye candy, fun, flirty overly sexualized, villain! What suddenly changed??
When Cora/Arora said to Emma that she thinks he cared about her he laughed about it saying it was a nice touch! (I can’t remember exactly.)
The writers, I’m sure, had a deliciously wonderful Hook/Pan story to tell in Neverland about how Hook worked for Pan, how he made a deal with him (which undoubtedly would include his obsession with killing Rumpelstiltskin), how he killed Rufio etc. etc. etc. but they could not let that story happen because fans wanted a “good” hook because they wanted a Hook/Emma kiss.
So the writers altered the Neverland arc a bit so they could make Hook softer and less interesting, meanwhile, making Neverland a little less interesting.
Because they needed to feed the madness. They needed to give a little something-something to the CS fans…
So they made Neal disappear into the EF with Mulan and Arora and Philip, thereby giving the CS a little kissing time.
Thy HOPED that this would be enough, now they can go back to the real storytelling that they wanted to show, but unfortunately, when you feed the madness, when you give in a little bit to the fandom… it feeds on you. NOW they had to change the story in an even BIGGER way. Now the story is taking a turn that becomes VERY HARD to fix.
Because no matter how they do end it, no matter if the end WILL be Neal and Emma (or rather Baelfire and Emma, since Neal is already a baby), the story itself became so tragically altered, that all of the SUBSTANCE is gone. There is very little left of the original story they wanted to tell anymore…
Think about it
What was the purpose that hook served the story in the WHOLE season 3?? What?? He could have been so much better utilized as the villain STILL trying to kill Gold still trying to sabotage the meeting between Bae and Rumple like he did in SB. His purpose in Neverland as a double agent or ambiguous villain would have been SO MUCH MORE FUN AND INTERSTING!!!
Especially while he was still acting so sexualized and having chemistry with every character and her mother on the show.
Instead he was just dragging everyone along in the jungle and behaving in a very boring way doing almost nothing… and then when they were all in SB? He was just there. He had no story to tell at all! Tink had a story to finish in SB, she believed in herself, she got her wings back, but he? What was he there for? They kept focusing on his pretty face, but he was not adding anything to the story at all!
Also in the Oz arc, it is obvious that they are FORCING a story on him. He has no arc at all, but they are writing new and boring things just so that he should have a story.
If they had stayed true to what they meant to write, he would have faded away well before “Going Home.” There is very little for his character to do anymore by that time.
But alas, we had to see his pretty face on our screens and his pretty face had to be kissable by Emma, so we couldn’t have him be the deliciously cruel villain he was in season 2 anymore.
Now he has to become the boring pirate gone soft.
Because of his stupid empty-headed ABC ceo-fangurls, all the characters on this show died. Emma is not Emma anymore Gold is not really Gold anymore, Neal, well, Neal’s dead. Henry is not Henry anymore, even Regina is not really herself. All of the LIFE came out of the show, and all we have left is some CS fanfiction.
The last few minutes of the season said it best. We had kissing. We had shipping. But did we have substance? Story? Plot? No. but the shippers who only want kissing, well, they were happy.