@obisgirl wrote:
What about Hook now?
Hook gave me whiplash in the season finale. I’ll take this apart from a the timeline and I’ll see what conclusion I come to because I’m still not sure about him…
NL of the past: he starts off almost threatening Bae, he’s very menacing (in my eyes) to a poor young boy who was just carried by a magical shadow. It’s only after he learns that he is Rumple and Milah’s son that he becomes nice. He then protects Bae from Felix and then we see him teaching Bae to sail. All these things warmed my heart and made me want to like Hook more (because I feel so bad for Bae that anyone showing him some measure of love and affection I tend to like). But in the telling of his past, I think Hook was speaking the truth as he knows it, but I also think he was fishing for information about Rumple and how to kill him. And while I believe that Hook would have let Bae stay aboard the JR up until that last second when the Lost Ones took Bae, the fact is he did let them take Bae. Hook, like Rumple, is so consumed by jealousy that it clouded his chance to be a father. Bae was spot on: Rumple and Hook are very much alike. And because my heart already belongs to Rumple, I find it hard to see Hook in the same light that I am constantly seeing with Rumple.
SB of the present: Talk about back and forth! He helps out GOAT, learns he’s going to die, so he switches sides to the Charmings, and then once he has the bean and Emma pleads with him to help out the Charmings (because they understand each other) he STILL RUNS AWAY! I know the CS’ers will have a different perspective on why Hook came back (and you all may be right) by my reading of this scene is that it was learning that Bae was dead (the son her wronged and wished to make amends to) that brought him back in the end. He owes Bae an apology and needs to ask for forgiveness, just like Rumple does. That’s why he came back with the bean. But still, he took the bean and everyone almost died.
So where do I stand with Hook now?
1) He still shot Belle. That’s…very hard for me to get over. (And yes I know. Rumple killed Milah but Milah is up there on my list of most hated characters)
2) He is obviously a man who loved Milah deeply, so deeply that he’s willing to overlook that Bae is also Rumple’s son.
3) He is consumed by jealousy and anger and his need for revenge. Give him a funny voice and tighter leather pants and he’d be Rumple.
4) In the end, he did come back. That’s important. Without knowing that Henry had been taken, he still came back.
I talked myself into circles. 😆
I think I will really warm up to Hook in S3. I think when we see him work with Rumple and the Charmings to find Henry I will really like him. Until then I remain a bit undecided.