@KFChimera wrote:
Milah is more plot device than character but there is interesting space to fashion a character there if they want, one who isn’t just a scape goat for Rumpel or Hook’s actions, but a complicated character in her own right (a mix of harassed Young Cora, bravery-seeking Belle, misguided mothering like Regina and old Cora, sacrificing Snow).
This is true, she does have potential to be more than just what she is right now. I know we’ll see her again as we’re getting more of Hook’s backstory and maybe they’ll show how conflicted she was over leaving Bae and how much she wanted to go back and get him but in my eyes the fact remains: she didn’t. She ran off, left him with someone she considered to be a coward and wished has died instead of being a father and chances are I’m never going to like her much.