But wasn’t Hook like a legit drunken pirate who probably killed people off screen (he was going to kill Rumple before he realized he became the DO. Wasn’t he hitting on women at bars etc. He was no saint before he met Milah
To be sure. Though Hook’s time line is really wonky and strange and it’s hard to know exactly when all his misdeeds happen (pre Milah, with Milah, post Milah when Pan released him from NVL?) because the writers try to make it as blurry as possible.
Not having people’s approval sucks and that’s a battle he is still fighting today. And even after he gets David’s respect, finally, now that likely will leave again once David finds out the news.
Sure. But that’s one thing that did strike me as odd in this past week’s episode (an episode I quite enjoyed btw, apart from this new twist). David and Hook already made amends and had bonded in the Underworld of S5B. So David’s whole disrespect, snarky, meanness to Hook seemed out of left field. But the writers needed it to be heightened in order to make the resolution of David giving Hook is blessing more poignant. Again, like with Belle or Archie the writing works to an extent but….side-eye.