@PriceofMagic wrote:
Neither Hook nor Rumple are the type to forget and forgive. Hook has spent too long focused on his quest for revenge to let Rumple get away with what he did. The two characters can’t coexist peacefully in the same town. Either one has to kill the other or Hook has to leave Storybrooke.
Yes, I agree. I don’t know if they’ll kill him off because he does seem to be a fan favorite now, but they could potentially just banish/send him off to somewhere else to pop in whenever he’s needed.
I don’t think he’ll get his revenge because Rumple is connected to so many people’s stories, and he still has a lot of growing to do before they’ll potentially kill him off. So if Hook doesn’t get his revenge this time, I just can’t see him staying on the show and redeeming himself because his whole life for almost 300 years has just been for that one purpose.
In some ways, it’s like Rumple’s drive in reuniting with Bae being behind everything he’s done for almost the same amount of time, but we know that will eventually have a payoff for Rumple in finding Bae again, not the one he probably wants, but a payoff nonetheless that will most likely lead to Rumple really changing instead of saying he will like he does with Belle and then doing something behind her back again. They could redeem Hook, but I think he’s more like a learning lesson for mostly Rumple but other characters on the show to look at and know that they could turn out like he did if they only focus on getting revenge.
I’m assuming he plans to kill Rumple by stabbing him with the dagger. I speculated recently that Hook would in fact stab him, but it wouldn’t kill him, and Belle’s love would somehow save him, and then the Dark One curse will cease to exist because it can’t go back into Rumple, and if Rumple’s not dead, then it can’t move on to someone new either. If something like that happened, Hook would inadvertantly save Rumple’s soul whilst attempting to kill him, which would be sort of poetic…and would piss Hook right off…the moment he’s been plotting for almost 300 years, and it all goes completely wrong…talk about unsatisfying revenge.
Yes, it would be like Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with Hook in the Gaston role, and it would change the direction of the show with Rumple not being the Dark One anymore and struggling with maybe feeling powerless and wanting to do dark magic again so he doesn’t feel like that, but also struggling with how much damage he’s done to Nealfire’s life and of those that Neal loves and cares about. Plus, it would fit in with how the villains’ plans backfire on them and end up helping their enemies in the end. Regina wants to get rid of Emma, so she tries to poison her which leads to Henry dying, which results in Emma finally believing and the Curse breaking. Regina wants to be the one to keep Snow and Charming apart, so she helps save Charming’s life from King George. Regina wants to keep Belle as a chess piece, so she helps save Belle’s life from Hook.