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IF they are really being legit in that, then I am hard-pressed to find their series endgame being anything other than SF. I think it’s safe to say that SF was the intended story from S1-S3A; we are seeing now that there’s a course change but if they’re intending to bring it back around, then that’s where things will end. IF they’re legit in that their end map is the same as it was when they created the series, it *can’t* be Hook because they didn’t have the concrete ability to have Hook in the picture at that point in time – they didn’t have the rights to that character.
There are a couple of assumptions, but yeah, that.
Assumption #1 – That the final scene involves Emma and her romantic true love. This is a reasonable assumption because the whole show began with the scene establishing Emma’s parents and their true love, so a grand romantic gesture between Emma and hers would bring the whole show full circle. It’d also be full circle in the sense that the first time we saw Emma she was on a fake date, so it’d be nice to end it with a scene showing her genuinely in love.
Assumption #2 – That when they imagined that scene, they were specific about WHO was there with Emma. If they had the person’s ID locked in, and not just a vague, “Emma and her TL”, then there’s no way it can be Hook because he wasn’t even a guaranteed get for them back then. Making the person a character of their own creation would guarantee that they wouldn’t have to waver from their original endgame vision, because they can do absolutely anything they want with a character that they invented. (Even SQ would make more sense in this regard as opposed to CS, because Regina is a character who was always guaranteed to be there right from the beginning.)
Bonus assumption – That they’re telling the truth when they say they still have their original final scene in mind and don’t intend to change it.
Adam once said that they wrote SF as being poetic. That means it’s a story that they put a lot of thought and planning and heart into right from the very beginning, and if that’s the same time they came up with the vision for their final ever scene…well…just sayin’.