But I think it’s kind of nonsense to compare Hook to Neal and vice versa anyway. You could write down a lot of things, especially that happened to them and making them who they became, and it’d probably apply to either of them fairly well.
The previous comments weren’t from people randomly trying to draw comparisons by pulling them out of their butts. Colin straight up said that Hook and Emma were alike and she didn’t have those similarities with anyone else, and that’s a straight up innaccuracy, both in the sense that she hasn’t had it with anyone else and even that they’re the same in the first place. Emma grew up alone and abandoned and became a petty thief in order to survive. Hook grew up with a stable career and a brother he was incredibly close to and ended up plundering and killing as a pirate. Those experiences do not equate with each other. The way Colin chose to describe Hook in this interview is a more accurate description of Neal.