@Hannah97 wrote:
Yeah, I really don’t understand why people want Hook and Emma together. Yes, he’s good-looking but the guy is really evil. He’s been plotting his revenge for hundreds of years, he’s murdered, and he’s double crossed pretty much everyone he’s ever worked with. If that doesn’t tell you that the guy is bad news I don’t know what will.
Chemistry. The Buzzsugar poll was right. The sexual tension there is really good. There’s more a potential for drama. There’s just more potential there all the way around. Those attributes just aren’t there with Neal. And honestly, shallow as I know it probably sounds, I’ll be blunt. Colin O’Donoghue is a looker. Cute as a button. A good ratings getter. The other guy just isn’t much to look at and sad as I know it is, appearance has everything to do with how fans will relate to what they do with this.
More cold, hard truth: Neal and Emma are too innocent. It’s sweet yes, but where push comes to shove, when put into action, it’s not realistically practical at the point of application. That’s another reason why for the sake of the show, I think putting Emma with Neal would be cute & sweet, but the excitement over that will fizzle quickly. That innocense will soon equate to booring. Whether for the right reasons or for the wrong reasons, the truth is that some things work better in theory, than in reality. The writers can do a lot with Emma and Hook. They now have a back-story and with appearance, drama, tension, and Hook’s personality, there’s enough there to stand their story up, and to keep the audience interested for the long-haul. Neal and Emma have a back-story, but that’s the only place where their tension is. The strong personality isn’t there. The attribute of appearance isn’t there. There’s just not enough there for the writers to draw from for long-term usage.
Right now, there’s another poll on Wetpaint. I think these factors are playing into why there’s such a larger favor toward Hook, than Neal.