Quickie: I never notice the shirt in the presence if the Irish eye-emoting and entwined hand-hugging)
Not so quickie: I agree, surayya, this ultimately was much more about Emma than Regina. I do think, hidden among the insulting ridiculousness of Regina in character destroying Drama-Queen mode, that the deeper issue of Emma’s future handling of Hook Angst is being set up. Rather a “can’t see the forrest for the trees” writers’ syndrome that so often happens in an episode. The story telling often veers off the eye-rolling map when the writers want to go a little too far into foreshadowing “parallel” land. They temporarily toss one character under a double-decker bus while driving another character forward. And the theme of this season IS never giving up in those you love. That just screams hot mess…
Chaos and creativity often are annoying bed partners.
Oh, yes I do think that some of the foreshadowing was there for the whole Killian being Rumple’s bit… female dog, was there …. I think emma is going to be hurt & upset when she finds out (depending on how she finds out), but I think she’ll quickly realise Killian’s heart was in the right place & Rumple took advantage of that, which will have us seeing her fight for him (unless she fights for him before she finds out & her act of fighting for him inspires him to come clean, as he sees she really does love him maybe? IDK I’ve havent decided exactly which way I think A&E will go with it yet lol).
Yes they do often dont they, but in the words of Ron Weasley “we’re gonna suffer, but we’re gonna be happy about it” lol 😉