Everything in this show boils down to your favorite character and least favorite character. If Rumple is actually dead and never seen/heard from again I would still watch but I wouldn’t find it as enjoyable.
I completely agree.
With CSF, look at the Character sorting thing that we did yesterday. I don’t think I saw any “Hook” in known SFers and I didn’t see any “Neal’s” in known CSers. But yet both CSers and SFers all had Emma in their top 5.
I looked at the results and noticed that too. And also SFers tended to have RumBelle in their top 5 as well whereas with the CSers they were either further down or at the bottom.
Yes, the results were interesting across the board. Absolutely agree that who your fave characters are influences how you interpret the entire show.
I wonder, if Neal was absolute least favorite of more CSers than Hook is least favorite of SFers? No idea, but he wasn’t in my bottom 5, was below all the main cast, which surprised me because I thought I liked him more than Regina. Yet I like people he is at odds with, so it might push him down because I like Rumple, Belle and Neal more. Same with Snow–I like her more than Rumple, but since I don’t hate Regina, it seems like I like Snow less than I do, if that makes sense.
He was about the middle of my list too. I’m experiencing disillusion and disappointment with Hook right now, as opposed to actual dislike.
So maybe Neal will start to love someone else but I don’t see him doing that with how he has been written where a decade went along and it took a woman on a mission completely faking everything on her side for him to get engaged
I don’t see it happening for him at all. And neither does MRJ.
But with Hook, I think he’s in love with an idea of who he thinks Emma is, not Emma as she really is.
But at this point I don’t know how they resolve the CaptainFire stuff while resolving the CaptainSwanFire stuff.
Hook doesn’t even KNOW who Emma really is. They’ve had no opportunity to just chill out and actually get to know each other. From what he HAS seen of her, it’s unsurprising that he’s attracted. Considering what Emma’s kiss did to Graham’s brain, I think it’s believable that her kiss had an affect on Hook’s brain as well. It made something in him shift, and he automatically assigned that feeling the description of “love”, but I think in time he’ll come to realise that that’s not what it really is. It’s like he was locked into a certain mindset, and Emma turned the key, but his actual future love is on the other side of the doorway that’s now half open.
I really don’t see moving on to someone else as being consistent with Neal’s character. His heart belongs to Emma, has since the moment they met. She’s the one he’d waited centuries to meet, and she’s the one he hurt (though not without reason), and there’s so much emotion tied up in all of that, all the good and all the bad, his and Emma’s hearts are entwined in a way that’s unique to them, and I can’t see them ever being separate.
CSF needs to be resolved before there’s any hope for CaptainFire stuff to be resolved. And OMG do I want CaptainFire stuff to be resolved because that relationship has been such a missed opportunity thus far. It’s gonna take Hook making some personal realisations and changes before any of it can be resolved.