For someone whom pays attention to “canon” you sure are ignoring some pretty big things.
1. They gave specific reasons within the episode as to why those kisses did not work. The first one was that Emma did not think anything was wrong with her. The second failed one was specifically stated by Rumple. Emma liked the darkness, and the power charge she got from it. That’s why that kiss did not work.
That is a stated reason in the show, and you can take it at face value. I think that all of the failed attempts at TLK are quite telling and still open to interpretation. Emma might just have been telling herself that was the reason, and the Rumple in her head was a manifestation of the darkness speaking. Was it the true reason that Emma’s curse wasn’t broken though? Emma did feel the lure of the darkness, but if anyone was ready to overcome darkness for good, it was Emma Swan, the savior, the product of true love, and wielder of light magic. Dark magic isn’t her true love the the way it is for Rumple, nor was she addicted to it, and I think if Emma had kissed Henry while she was still cursed, then her dark one curse would have been broken. (The fact that Emma didn’t even try kissing Henry on the forehead was just due to plot in my opinion). Emma was ready and willing to get rid of the darkness once and for all and was on the threshold of doing so before Hook started bleeding and she saved him with dark magic. Emma was ready to be rid of the dark one curse forever in Camelot. There were also other failed attempts at TLK back in SB, and Hook expressed surprise that it “didn’t bloody work” when he tried to break her curse with his kiss. By the time Emma was back in SB and fooling everyone, she wanted to help Hook overcome the darkness with the strength of their love, but Hook rejected her as the dark one. Emma implored him and tried to get him to see that they were able to overcome it together, but instead he turned on her and tried to have her family mass murdered. Also, there was that time in season three when Hook’s lips were cursed due to his “selfish plea” on Emma Swan’s name, and instead of it being broken, it drained Emma of her true love magic, the thing that makes here special.
2. Emma failed to share her heart with Hook because as the show stated Hook was a rotting corpse in SB. The only reason the Snowing one was successful was because Charming was dead for a very small amount of time. This was stated in dialogue.
Why didn’t Emma try sharing her heart with Hook right away before his body was carried off? I think the writers want to keep this one open to debate, the way we’re doing now. Why not just show Emma sharing her heart with Hook to quiet anyone who doubts if their love is kind of love that Emma’s parents share? The writers could have shown us once and for all but for some reason decided not to. Probably it’s to keep people doubting and guessing until the end.
3. “True love shove”, funny because the people that say that are the ones that like to mock CS and say that Emma and Regina are a romantic pairing.
I’m not shipper of Emma and Regina romantically, so I don’t really see what the relevance of that point is. You seem convinced that most of us here blindly hate on Hook while turning a blind eye to the misdeeds of Regina and Rumple. No, I hold Regina, Rumple and Hook all equally accountable for their sins, and I don’t ship Emma and Regina romantically. While I do think Emma and Regina love each other, I think it’s as friends and family members. Emma clearly sacrificed herself to spare Regina from becoming the dark one, and true love is sacrifice. Also, if we’re going strictly by canon, Neal and Emma shared true love, as evidence by the swan pendant crossing realms twice because it was born out of true love. But CS fans don’t like to admit it and claim it’s just Belle’s opinion. Again, it’s a matter of interpretation, but probably you won’t see it that way.
But enough about that, it’s not only CS fans though. The entire cast including Adam and Eddy spent the entire time at Comic Con reinforcing that Emma and Hook are true love. So not that ambiguous seeing as they point blank said it loud and clear at CC, and Jennifer and Colin said it in basically every interview.
I’m very aware that the cast have called CS true love but that just may be the party line. The scene was written in a very ambiguous way open to interpretation. Hades and Zelena and Ruby and Dorothy shared true love’s kiss in the same half season, demonstrating they those couple for sure had true love, but I’ve yet to see irrefutable proof that Hook and Emma have true love. For all the kissing that Emma and Hook do on screen, I still haven’t seen them share TLK — not once. Emma and Hook’s didn’t even start to break the cruse the way it did for Rumple and Belle in Skin Deep before Rumple pulled away. Until such time that I see Emma and Hook share TLK on screen, I’m not going to call it true love. You can have your own take on it, and I can have mine. The script is open to interpretation still as far as I’m concerned.
Totally agree.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of Felix