Sure. But normal people aren’t going to forgive you for that over the course of one day. Look at how long it took Regina with others. I don’t want Hook to confess and get forgiven in the span of one episode or even two.
Haha so true. It’s why they needed Hook to tell him before now so that they could give Charming a few episodes to reflect and then eventually forgive him. If he forgives him on the spot or in one episode, that is a problem.
A mistake is something you do accidently. Hook made a choice and was only stopped by being caught in the act.
I think you can make a choice that was a mistake. A mistake is, “An action or judgement that is misguided or wrong.” Hook’s action was planning on destroying his memories thus not telling Emma and Charming the truth. And that was a wrong action. Thus, his choice to perform that action, was wrong, thus making it a mistake.
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.
Not to bring up any ship wars or whatever, but I have to think that if it was reversed and Neal and Emma’s proposal didn’t go as planned and was murky and the perfect proposal all SF fans were hoping for got ruined, you would be rooting for the show to turn that around and do a double take and give the audience the proposal they wanted to see. But maybe not…
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 don’t disagree with this. It would have been better to just have Hook tell her. But this is why the CS proposal matters! Bc he was about to tell her and then the writers stupidly had Emma find the ring, interrupt Hook, and influence Hook into not ruining the moment, even though it was already ruined bc he was drunk and had a huge secret to tell her, instead of letting Hook do the right thing and do what he finally got the courage to do. So not only did Hook’s character take a hit bc he didn’t tell her, but the whole proposal is shadowed by this lie. They royally screwed it up. So now, they need to fix it. Not even from a CS standpoint, but from a character standpoint to bring Hook out of the crapper again and to give Emma the proper proposal, with no secrets, with the man she loves. It’s important for the story. At least I think so.
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.
And what I’ll say to this is simply that the writers want us to feel like Emma gave him no choice but to propose on the spot, and they want us to feel like Hook wasn’t really able to tell her at that point. The writers wanted their cake and eat it too. They wanted Hook to back out of telling the truth to cause drama but also wanted the fans to know he was absolutely going to tell her. The problem though is that HE STILL COULD HAVE TOLD HER. So now people who don’t like Hook can ignore that he had made a decision to tell her and was going to and simply focus on the fact that after the proposal, he made the wrong decision, a choice, a mistake, to not tell anyone. The writer’s plan backfired. So in order to properly fix Hook’s character, and give the main character, Emma, the proper happy ending, or at least a wedding to someone she loves, they HAVE to fix the proposal. They have to fix what Hook ultimately decided to do or this relationship’s final bow will not stick.