Reply To: The Truth (Sort Of) Comes Out

[TheWatcher]

I’ve got pizza and wings, so excuse my rambling, its  a slow night for me and a much needed day off is coming so I might get a little repetitive:

but technically he didn’t lie. He withheld information bc he was too afraid to tell her

Naaaahhhhh. Hook was planning on extracting and destroying his memories, thus preventing him from ever coming clean and telling her the truth. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that called a “Lie by omission” or something? He was preparing to never reveal it to her at all had she not walked in.

His reasons for not wanting to do it are understandable. Him being about to not do it is not.

It was a mistake on his part

A mistake is something you do accidently. Hook made a choice and was only stopped by being caught in the act.

But to me, the CS proposal kinda sucked and then how Emma found out about Charming’s dad kinda sucked.

But I don’t think this should be about the way the proposal went down. What does it matter? Its about what is happening between Hook and Emma right now as they are planning to move their relationship to the next level. What good is a proposal when you find out the person you are trying to marry is keeping big secrets from you. That’s not a good way to start a life together. I’m no CS fan but even if it was, screw the proposal, it could have been the most extravagant magical man on one knee proposal ever, once Hook made that choice all that goes out the window. This shouldn’t be a way to lead them to doing a better proposal.

To me, this is setting Hook up for his big moment by re-proposing the right way and owning up to everything in the way he should have originally.

And that’s an issue for me.  I feel like all this is nothing but a big runaround, a setup for a big moment for Hook. Which I don’t have a problem with but I feel a much better option would have been for him to tell the truth in the first place!!!  THAT would have shown he was a changed man, a noble man, a brave man who was confronting the past and laying himself out bare for Emma knowing that she may leave him and then having her accept his proposal or whatever. This was a yuge missed opportunity.

I get it’s more personal bc it directly affects him now, but how hypocritical will it look if he doesn’t forgive him?

But….okay, don’t throw tomoatoes at me here but….

Does Hook deserve it? Once again….Hook made a choice. One that was only stopped by Emma walking in on him in the act.

Had Hook had it his way, no one was ever going to find out. In the words of a great sorcerer, its not a persons actions that define them, but their choices.

so the short version of all this: I’m mad that Hook chose to hide his secret, I’m mad that this feels like a setup to inevitably sweep it all under the rug, I’m mad that he (and the show?) are placing Emma’s feelings about this above Charmings, I’m mad that people are making this about the CS proposal and not about the state of their relationship in general, I’m mad that we all just know this going to end with Hook doing something good to make up for what he did, I’m mad that A&E once again had an opportunity to show Hook as a good guy and didn’t, but will expect us to see him as such anyway.

And to be fair, it baffles me that this family could ever have dinner together after all the staby-staby

Knowing this family, every thanksgiving dinner is going to end with a new random villain popping in, cursing everyone, and then by Christmas they find out the villain is actually someones old flame/sibling/parent/long lost relative who was abandoned. Every family get together.