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I don’t give Hook any special points for helping Belle not be murdered on his ship. I don’t think that what Hook did there was all that special or noteworthy. It is certainly not some show of a great change within him. If anything his behavior just seemed bizarre and out of character as does Belle’s. Especially when in the last episode he is trying to erase and burn his memories because he can get away with it then run off without saying anything.
Also, Hook must have been pretty close to get to his ship anyways and then he was fighting to protect himself from Jekyll. It just doesn’t feel like some great deed. Hook didn’t have to sacrifice anything to protect Belle except for the time it took him to walk over to his ship. When Hook actually has something to lose, like Emma, which it is always Emma, then he does the thing that will best protect himself from losing her even if it hurts her or is just evil.
Regina had a choice. The thing that would have probably been the best to protect herself would be to kill the Evil Queen. No one would have known. The Evil Queen would no longer be a danger. Regina could have kept the light in her heart and not had to share in the darkness with the Evil Queen. She could have hidden what happened and no one would have known, but she didn’t do that. She thought about the Evil Queen as a person. She thought about wish Robin. She thought about Henry.
I have real problems with Regina’s characterization, but i do think there is at least a change in her way of thinking and behaving that i don’t see in Hook. Certainly Hook hasn’t changed significantly enough to be getting married to Emma in six episodes, some of which they will not even be in the same place. Though, i imagine they will be reunited at the end of the next episode.