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EDIT to shorten: The darkness didn’t brainwash him, it didn’t force him to do any of that. His own feelings and emotions did. Hook is still responsible for his actions. He was so angry at Emma he was willing and had the power to send her to hell for she did. Being the dark one doesn’t take away his accountability any more than it should from Rumpel and all the crap he’s putting everyone through since he’s still the dark one.
Agree to disagree I guess. The way I see it, Hook begged Emma not to make him a DO. Bc he knew what would happen if she did. He knew he wouldn’t be as strong as her. He knew if he tasted the darkness again, he wouldn’t be able to control himself. But Emma still did, to save his life obviously, but there are consequences and Hook still had demons in him he was fighting and the darkness latched onto it and Nimue in particular was using his weakness for lust and revenge against him. She was manipulating and tricking him until the very end. I just do not blame Hook for everything. The way the show presented itself, it made us feel like the darkness grabs hold of your weakest traits and exposes them for the world to see. I don’t think we were supposed to look at all of that and think, man Hook is truly a horrible person deep down. I think you were supposed to look at it like, man no wonder why it was taking Hook so long to come around as a good person, he has so much hate buried deep down, we have to save him before he destroys the entire town (due to the darkness)!!! I cannot emphasize more that Hook wouldn’t have done any of those things if he didn’t become the DO which he specifically told Emma not to do. But again, it’s debatable, so agree to disagree.