I don’t know. This episode answered questions but the answers were horrible and weird and made Emma’s hero journey all about a guy, which I find offensive on many levels.
Remember how we speculated that we wanted Emma to beat the darkness by finding the strength within herself to overcome it, and what an inspirational story that would be? *SIGH*
Regina and Emma’s conversation in Camelot
Best scene of the ep IMO. Emma had known that Regina would be the best one to have the Dagger because she’d have the balls to use it as was necessary, and we actually saw it happen. I may have issues with the specifics of the revelation that Emma had thanks to Regina pushing her like that, but regardless, the fact that Regina gave her that tough love was nice to see.
Hook apparently kept trophies of all his kills. Sociopaths do that. Not men who are one half of a story being pushed on us as an all time great love story.
Sociopath!Hook would have been a much more interesting character. If anything, this revelation that he kept these trophies (and still wears them to this day) makes his supposed overnight redemption more laughable. More thoughtful writers could have explored his dark side while still giving us glimpses of his humanity along the way and building towards there being a believable change in him.
My fave bad guy over on “Arrow”, he’s an assassin who tattooed the names of his contract kills all over his torso, one of those names being the brother of one of the main characters. They wrote him as being a snarky word-I-can’t-say-on-this-forum who did his thing and didn’t give a crap about anyone else, but they still gave him a soft spot when it came to his daughter. They built on that to give him a great little arc that led up to a self sacrifical moment.
He’s a recurring character who has only been in a handful of eps over the course of 3 seasons, and had 1 ep’s worth of flashbacks to fill in some of his backstory. When I compare what was accomplished with that character with so little air time, to the potential the OUAT writers have had with Hook which they just wasted, it really bums me out. He could have been a really interesting, layered, dark character with a well forged and earned redemption arc. *SIGH*
Charming: her name is SNOW WHITE not Mary Margaret. GAH.
My soul dies a little every time Charming calls the love of his life by her fake name.