@Josephine wrote:
I know I’m going to get hate for this, but I still have no feelings for Hook. No sympathy, no pity, nothing. I just feel nothing for him. I can see that he wanted Gold to kill him to be reunited with Milah, and yeah, he threw the library fight to distract Gold, but just like Regina and Daniel, another controversial thing, I really didn’t feel anything. At least bringing Daniel back from the dead did get me to see that she did love him and I felt a little stirring for feeling that Stable Boy didn’t produce, but after this episode and “The Crocodile” I fear I’ll just never have any feelings for Hook. Weird thing is I don’t even have anger toward him, even though I’m a huge Rumbelle fan.
I have sympathy in that he lost Milah the way he did even though I don’t think that Hook/Milah quite worked instantly like Snow/Charming, Rumple/Belle, and Emma/Neal did for me. I mean I believe that their each other’s true loves especially Milah’s feelings for Hook, but I just wish they showed more in “The Crocodile” why Hook fell in love with Milah. Now after that episode, I think Hook has shown just how deep his love truly ran for her. I just wish they would have done more in “The Crocodile” to show that because while I understand his need for revenge, it just didn’t compare to how they have wrote Rumple’s and Regina’s quests.
For instance, I cheer for Rumple to at least find Bae, but I can’t cheer for Hook to attain his goal. I know that it’s Rumple’s fault for losing Bae in the first place, and Hook didn’t deserve Rumple killing his true love in front of him no less. However, Hook was a bully from the first time that we met him, and while Rumple has turned into something far worse than Hook, we were shown that he was a good man at one time and that part of him does still exist deeply buried within him, but it’s still in there.
I can’t even love to hate Hook like I did with Regina in the first season even though I think that his quest for revenge makes more sense than her quest for revenge over a little girl because the writing for him before the winter hiatus was very inconsisten inconsistent. I love it when they’re not afraid to go all out with him like they have Cora’s character, but at times, it felt like they didn’t know they wanted to go with Hook’s character. Sometimes it felt like they really wanted a Captain Jack Sparrow character, but they were too scared to actually just write in Jack Sparrow to the show. Other times it felt like they really did want to put him in the same league as the other villains when he stole Aurora’s heart or when he backhanded Belle and was about to gut her open. Both options could have worked, but when they tried to do them together, I think it just came out a mess because I found Hook too villainous to like as a charming rogue yet too wacky and trivial to take seriously as a villain. I’m cautiously optimistic because I think that they’re going the latter route now by just having him be villainous yet having a sympathetic side brought out by talking about Milah, which I think should have been the way they went in the first place, instead of trying to please everyone with his character.