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Lucky last!
All the CS stuff we’ve gotten in the first five episodes this season has been amazing. There is no other word for it. I was watching a fan vid earlier and thinking about the season three finale and that seems like it was years ago because so many wonderful things have happened since then.
I’m so proud of Emma and the growth that she’s shown. She told Killian in the finale that she wanted to stop running and she’s stuck to that. She’s letting him in emotionally in a way that she never has before – the scenes with the box from her past were so good because she was at her most vulnerable point and he asked her to show him and she did because she trusts him that much.
The casual intimacy – the flirty glances, the kiss on the cheek, the teasing with her parents before and after the date, the way she let him hold her after the ice castle – the way she laced their fingers together – she’s come so far in a short amount of time because he’s proven to her again and again that he’s not like everyone else, he’s not going to leave her or hurt her, at least not on purpose,ever.
Killian has been amazing, continuing to be her rock and follow her lead, but he’s also stepped up too. In the premiere and again in 4×03, he called her out for pushing him away and pushed for answers. Then when she told him her fears (another major step for Emma), he reassured her that he’s a survivor and he’s not going anywhere and he’s continued to show up for her again and again. He went out of his comfort zone for their date – changing his clothes and going to Rumple to get his hand back because he wanted to hold her with both hands if that was what she wanted.
Obviously the hand thing backfired and I’ve said before that I’m a little on the fence about this plot because I don’t want a repeat of the cursed lips story, but I have faith this is going to work out differently, even if it is a little too contrived. That being said, I think it’s ultimately going to bring them closer and give Emma a chance to show him that she believes in him and she doesn’t need him to be anything he’s not. She knows about his past and the man he was and she doesn’t care because she also knows the man he is – the man who’s been good to her and her son and her parents and who’s been by her side through all this craziness.
(Putting spoiler-y/speculation under the cut).
As far as moving forward, we know the other shoe has to drop because things have been too good for them. And I’ve said a few times that episode 4×05 doesn’t match up to where we left off in 4×04 as far as Killian’s behavior goes, but I wonder if that’s intentional. In season three, after Zelena cursed him, he put distance between them and wallowed in his mistakes. Maybe he’s not doing that now because he learned his lesson and won’t push Emma away again. But the truth is still going to come out and I feel like he’s going to get backed into another corner before he confesses. But I do think it’ll be different this time. Emma’s not going to stop trusting him – she might be mad and hurt, but she’s not going to turn her back on him or push him out of her life. If anything, she’ll call him an idiot and tell him again that she doesn’t care about the past.
From filming spoilers and the synopsis for 4×08, we know Emma’s going to lose control of her magic and consider letting Rumple take it away and Killian will attempt to stop her. I think that’s going to be a big deal because he’s always been the person who helps her most with her magic and talks her down when she feels like she can’t do something or her magic is a burden (paralleling Anna and Elsa). I think we could potentially get some really great scenes in this episode and maybe even an ‘I love you’ from Killian because he’s implied it, but never actually said the words to her and I think this could be one of those ‘I love every part of you because it’s who you are’ kind of things and I also think we’ll have the flipside of that when she learns the reason he became indebted to Rumple in the first place – whether it comes out before or after this episode.
Ultimately, I think by the time 4A winds down, CS is going to be in a really great place emotionally and they’ll be stronger than ever…and then 4B will bring in new obstacles because that’s how the show rolls.