I’ve ‘shipped a lot but Captain Swan is honestly, the most beautiful love story ever.
I know right! I thought I’d shipped one couple hard before, but NOPE! CS is for sure my OTP & simply the most beautiful love story I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch unfold 😀 <3
Hook is everything Emma needs in a true love and he was always meant to fall in love with her and I have to believe that Adam and Eddy always wanted to bring him onto the show for one purpose: making him Emma’s true love. They couldn’t get the rights for him in season one, so they had to wait until they did.
And knowing this season’s theme is that you don’t give up on the people that you love and this is what the Charming family does, Hook fits in quite perfectly there because Hook has never given up on the people that he loves. He fights for them.
*Nods*
And you know, it has to be said but Neal admitted to Mulan that he did give up on Emma. He took the easy way and did not even look for her after the curse was broken. He gave up on trying to reconcile because his fear got in the way. It was implied that the reason Neal asked August to send him a post card to him once the curse was broken, was that he intended to go after Emma but he didn’t. He even moved on from Emma and found love with Tamara. And true loves can’t move on from each other and yet, Neal moved on from Emma and also gave up on her as well.
And Hook couldn’t move on from Emma in the Enchanted Forest during the lost, he stayed loyal to her and Hook didn’t give on finding a way to rescue her from the ice cave. Hook is the man Emma deserves, someone who will not give up on her and will continue to fight for her no matter what, even in incredibly futile circumstances.
I know we’re not talking about true love yet but Emma and Hook are definitely on their way to becoming true love. It’s coming (probably in the 4B finale, or going into it).
YES! THIS!
Rumple will destroy his own happiness, Hook really doesn’t need to do much. Rumple swapped the dagger but he’s still lying to Belle and Adam and Eddy said at NYCC. Rumple is still self-serving and he’s still Everything you see him do will show that he’s in it for himself.
Until Rumple can let go of that selfishness, he’s never really going to have a happy ending with Belle. I feel sorry for Belle, to be honest. She trusts him and has such unwavering faith in him but Rumple continually does these things that sabotage his happy ending.
I mean look at the scene in the last episode. Look at how Rumple interacted with Hook. Charming and Hook go to ask Rumple for help with saving Emma. Hook acknowledges that Rumple is the Dark One and is therefore powerful enough to destroy the ice cave. I love Rumple but why was he such a jerk towards Hook? Making a big deal about how he COULD destroy the cave but it would also destroy his girlfriend??? Just as a nice jab to remind him that he destroyed his LAST girlfriend??? Like, sure but then I’m gonna kill this girlfriend just like I killed your last. I get that he is upset about Neal dying and everything but dude is messed up right now and doesn’t appear to be in the right frame of mind in general. So I don’t think Hook is likely to DO anything to negatively affect Rumple’s growth, if anything he might RESPOND in a way that reveals what Rumple is up to but ultimately that might be exactly what is needed for a Rumple to have true character growth.
THat part actually bothered me as well for the reasons you’ve stated & the fact that Emma is his grandson’s mother, so they are related to each other & thats seriously how youre gonna respond?! I mean, sure they couldn’t just have Rumple go in & save the day- the story would have been over before it really started, but we can bet our socks, that had it been Belle,Neal or maybe even Henry in the ice cave, Rumple would have at least tried to find away to help get her or him out :/ I was also a little taken aback by Belle’s lack of worry in Rumple’s attitude there, isnt Emma supposed to be a friend?!
I actually wonder if they are working toward having Hook and Rumple ultimately bond in some way. I’ve actually wondered why they don’t get along now. I mean Milah treated Rumple like crap and now he is married to his TL Belle, so in hindsight Milah leaving him allowed him to find him his TL. And CS is pretty much shaping up to be TL as well so if Milah had lived Killian would never had found Emma. So in bizarre ways Rumple and Hook’s actions both lead the other to find their TL’s. Not that I think that excuses killing people or going on a 300 year quest for revenge. But ultimately that IS what resulted from those things. So really I don’t get what their problem with each other is anymore. So if they can have Hook and Rumple work together to have Rumple end up with character growth, they could end up bonding. Just a theory.
Interesting thought- although I guess Killian is still missing a hand thanks to Rumple, but he does seem to like his hook, so… yeah lol 😉