I was waiting all day for this thread to move so I could post the meta I wrote for last Sunday’s episode of Once.
Here’s a small teaser:
I’d like to start with Emma here. I think it’s important that she was the one to ask Hook out on a date and not the other way around.
So much of the relationship she has with Hook, even before she accepted her feelings for him in the season three finale, was about Hook giving her the ability to choose what they become. He told her in Dark Hollow that he was not going to force himself on her that, that he was going to wait for her to choose, wait for her to the make the first move.
That’s how much he loves, respects and adores Emma that and at the beginning of the episode, it was Emma who chose to walk into Granny’s with one objective in mind: to ask out her pirate on a date because she genuinely wanted to get to know him.
I really enjoyed that obisgirl- especially the parts about how JMo said Emma’s clothes reflect her emotional state & how Emma has changed & grown 🙂 I also love how you note how Killian see’s his hook, what that means to him & how he relates that to Emma, it was very nicely written 🙂
I think for me what stands out in stark contrast is how unguarded Emma was in 404, compared to how we’ve seen Emma since S1 & her pink dress perfectly reflects that IMO…. after all young Emma was wearing flowing, floral dresses when she was thieving with Neal & that was the last time in her life that was unguarded around a man she loved/had feelings for.
The funny thing is, as she has fully accepted her feelings & lower guard with Killian, it seems to have allowed her let her parents in more too. I’m thinking back to when she let Regina’s comment about needing back up, get to her & she bushed off David, until he pushed her to open up to him, then Emma drops her walls & lowers her guard totally by letting Killian know exactly why she keeps pulling away from him – she’s terrified of loosing him & the next time we see Emma & Snowing interact, Emma still has her guard down to zero with them too, by asking for their opinions on how she looks & enjoying their pleasure at seeing her off on her 1st big date- she isnt holding her cards so tightly or closely anymore 🙂
On a side note- WOW 2 pages of discussion ….. LOVING THIS GUYS!!! 🙂 😀 <3
