WORD to all of that RG & slurpeez, (saw your posts just now when I was about to finally post mine, good thing I checked, though mine might be a bit repetitive in places now).
I’m seriously bummed we didn’t get any present day CaptainFire interaction. Why did homey have to go and break his leg on that particular day?!
It is not “stealing”, so much as it is about crossing emotional lines. Hook has a relationship with Neal, and even though Emma doesn’t know that yet, Hook knows it. And though they both are unaware that Neal is alive, we know and the writers know it.
Adam tweeted the DVD deleted scenes should be canon–which means, Hook knows Neal might have dumped Tamara for Emma. He also likely knew Tamara didn’t love Neal, and that Tamara and Greg were a thing.
Yes. Back in the day, Hook begged Bae to stay on the JR. Colin has confirmed that it was a sincere offer, and if Bae had wanted to stay, Hook would have done whatever was necessary to keep him safe. Now, granted, Hook stood by and let Neal get used by Tamara, but given their previous relationship, Hook wouldn’t have achieved anything positive by approaching Neal to tell him that Tamara was using him. It’s actually similar to Neal’s mindset when he didn’t rush to see Emma. “I screwed her/him over, they feel totally betrayed by me, they won’t want to see me, let alone speak to or listen to me.”
Hook hadn’t counted on Bae’s life having been in danger though, and frankly, Tamara’s lucky she didn’t get a hook through the neck when she so casually said she’d killed him. That was the kid he’d wanted to be a father to that she was talking about. That’s Milah’s blood that she was talking about. Just because he’s agreed to not kill Rumple any more (for the moment at least) that doesn’t mean the love he’s carried around for Milah for 300 years has evaporated, and by extension, it doesn’t mean the affection he had for Bae back then has evaporated either. Once Hook discovers that Bae is indeed still alive, he’ll be hugely relieved, and won’t want to cause the kid any more pain.
There’ll inevitably be friction if CS have a close friendship, because Neal won’t like Emma being close to someone he has an unsavoury history with and doesn’t trust. Meanwhile, Hook will be hoping at the very least for a civil relationship with Neal. Emma will be stuck in the middle, loving Neal, but also feeling a strong connection to Hook. It’s still triangle-ish, even if CS never get romantic.
I’m curious to see how Hook will relate to Emma from here on in. We’ve only seen them interact for 2 seconds since he found out she’s the mother of Bae’s son, of Milah’s grandson. I wonder if he’ll see her in a new light now, have a new respect for her, and dial back the flirting?
Also, we know that Hook is all about a man fighting for what he wants, and we’ve had comments in interviews that say that Neal is gonna fight like hell to get back to Emma and Henry. If a guy is shot, falls through a portal to a land with no medical help, and no easy portals to get out, and yet he still manages to survive and find a way back…that’s the kind of dedication that Hook will respect.
I know that I look at all of this stuff with the SF endgame shipper bias, but I also look at it as a big fan of Hook. I’m really looking forward to seeing how he evolves in S3, and the way I view him, the belief I have that he can change for the better, I don’t really see him wanting to stand in the way of two people he cares about wanting to be together.