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Let’s talk about something positive. A new ‘hope’ meta posted, this one is for ‘Good Form’
Hope per episode: 3×05 – Good Form
“Good Form,” (3×05) is the backstory of Killian Jones. He was a lieutenant in the Navy, served under his brother and his Captain and also, in service of the king.
Here, we will examine “hope” as a theme throughout the episode.
Emma, Hook and her parents and Regina are still looking in Neal’s cave for more clues. Emma discovers some etchings in the cave wall and they are tallies, and she notices something about them.
Emma: Neal stopped counting.
Snow: ‘Cause he got off the island.
Emma: He was here longer.
Charming: Then why would he…
Emma: Because he lost hope.
Emma relates to how Neal must have felt, living alone in Neverland, all those years ago because she felt the same thing every time she was shuffled between foster families as a child. She stopped counting and just lost hope.
Hook relates to this because he knows what it feels like to lose hope.
Hook: I just wanted to let you know that I do know what it feels like, to lose hope.
We found out, in this episode, Milah wasn’t the only loss Hook suffered when he was younger. He also lost his older brother, Liam. He’s very familiar with loss and being helpless to save someone he loves. But Emma can’t focus on how he is trying to relate to her because she needs to focus on saving Henry and brushes him off.
Hook: It’s the best hope yet we’ve had of an exit plan. And don’t forget, we’re gonna need one.
After Hook told Charming about the sextant, it became their best hope for escaping the island. What the others don’t know, is that the sextant is actually not their escape but Hook’s only device to save Charming from the Dreamshade poison. But he’s putting it out there because the group needs hope, to believe that they can leave Neverland safely.
Liam: You actually think our king would send us to retrieve something so dangerous?
Killian: I would hope not. This is not what I signed up for.
It was established earlier in the flashback, this version of Killian Jones believed in good form, fighting fairly and generally, doing the right thing. So after he learned about the Dreamshade’s true nature, he really didn’t want to believe that the king he served was actually a villain and believed in “bad form.” He’s believed up to this point that the king was a good man, or hoped that he was.
Liam: We reveal our King’s cowardice.
Killian: Well, let’s hope the realm sides with us.
Liam: Oh, they will.
‘Good Form’ is all about the hero’s journey and specifically Killian’s journey, of what he initially believed was a hero’s journey. He and his brother believed this mission would bring glory to the Jones’ brothers and help make a name for themselves. But here, the brothers’ are coming back from the same journey two different, changed people.
And Liam shares Killian’s hope about exposing their king as a villain, and Liam is super confident that the realm, the kingdom will side with them. But them outing the king will bring a different type of glory than they originally thought. [x]