After having slept on everything- my take is this….. Emma needs to get Neal out of her system in order to move on (pretty much as we’ve all being saying since before this ep aired lol)- period.
I’m ok with that, as long is she does move on- I get the show is about hope etc & they both just want a family to love etc. But a loving family usually isn’t the result of a relationship built on distrust, deep hurt, jealously & the belittling the other, it sends the wrong message to imply it can work. Even if 3 of those things can be over come- there is still the trust issue…there is no way that can be spun that will allow for those 2 to be in a long term ‘healthy’ relationship (given the depth of that issue which we’ve had slammed into us over the last 2yrs).
Those trust issues go so deep that her own mother, whom jumped into a portal after her- so she wouldn’t be alone, showed her ‘what her life was meant to be,’ saved her from a troll, told her she would always have someone put her 1st etc & still Emma cant trust her enough to let her inside her walls! That is on Neal- Emma was willing to trust & love then Neal broke her & she shut down- totally & wont take that risk again- you cant build a healthy long term relationship with that as part of the foundations.
I REALLY hope they let SF have it’s moment, run it course, allowing both Emma & Neal to grow past it & from it, then they move onto healthier relationships.
I’ve always thought our lack of Hook scenes this season was entirely down to Colin’s broken leg. It would have been nice if we’d seen Hook these last 4 eps though- even if it was just lurking scenes 😉
I’m hoping the final isn’t too focused on the past (& if it is, I hope we get the back story of Killian- not Hook, next season!)- as they have changed the wording from Hook & Bea’s back story to “Bae’s” back story :/ It may sound petty or greedy, but I don’t care- I WANT HOOK/KILLIAN ON SCREEN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE DURING THE FINAL!- Hook haters be darned!
That interview was (mostly) great & seems to confirm a lot of what we already thought would be the case (ie. Hook being good with kids, having deeper layers & the capacity for change etc), hope we get better questions in a later interview tho :/
The one takeaway I jumped for joy at, was Colin saying he had to drop out of the band due to his commitments to Once – I take that to mean, Killian/Hook will back in force next season YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
If Hook/Killian is back as a regular, CS has an even greater chance of taking flight 😉 😀