Love all of this! Agreed, this stuff is NOT coming out of the blue but has been slowly building and is only now becoming SUPER obvious to those who may have questioned it before. Also really loving the analysis of the show. They have a very limited time to show stuff so to take the time to show us these moments and Hook’s reactions to what Emma says and to have some of these quiet moments where he’s helping and supporting her when they’re on this mission to go get Henry is important. It’s ALL important. Every time we see Hook or Emma talk about finding their happy endings or true love, the camera IMMEDIATELY goes to the other person. That’s deliberate. They could have gone to anyone when Emma talked about being the product of true love. They could have showed a beaming Snow & Charming holding hands and grinning at each other like idiots but they showed us HOOK. Hook and Regina had a genuinely nice moment in the premiere but they made a point of panning to him looking at Emma when he talked of hoping to find his happy ending. They could have just left it as a nice conversation between them, or him looking off into the distance somewhere, but they made a point of showing him looking directly at Emma.
You’re not going to hear any argument from me! The camera work is very deliberate, trying to get us to see a connection between them, as we can see from obisgirls cinematography link above.
On top of all the parallels and having Hook OBVIOUSLY trying to win over Charming just like Charming had to win over Grumpy I just…how is it so hard to see the setup? Or at least the potential of it meaning SOMETHING. This is not setting up a FLING, Hook genuinely cares for her and it’s only growing. We’re only 2 episodes in and so many feelings already! This season is going to be great! (Especially for CaptainSwan progression and it’s about time!)
Not to mention the scene where Charming and the dwarves have a drink to toast starting over, and that leads right into the scene where Emma and Killian share a drink! How obvious can you get???? Hope 3×03 is just as good as the last two were, and I have a feeling it will be, Jane Espenson wrote it.
So to recap: Hook knows and has always known who she was but still wants to know more, and Neal saying that if he had known who she really was, he wouldn’t have gone anywhere near her. Remind me why I’m NOT supposed to be shipping CaptainSwan?
Yes!!! This is coupled with the fact that Swanfire don’t have any real deep emotional connection. Like seriously, if Swanfire was supposed to be endgame, WHY ON EARTH would they introduce a character who is just like Emma in many ways, has a huge capacity for love, just happens to be ready to find love again because of a certain person, and give them SUCH a deep emotional connection and sexual chemistry? Don’t Swanfire have enough issues to be dealing with rather than introducing such a good contender for Emma’s heart into the mix?
Not to mention the fact that in Manhattan they were paralleling Milah/Rumple with Emma/Neal.
You did this because a seer told you to?
You left me because Pinnochio told you to?
Seriously, if they’re trying to set up Swanfire as endgame, they’re doing it wrong. I was doing some small calculations one day on forums/polls and found that it seems to be a 65:35 divide in Captain Swans favour. And 35 is being generous to Swanfire. It doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things obviously, but it does mean that roughly 65 people out of 100 are interpreting things between Captain Swan in the same way. And that number will, I believe, only grow this season.
Between these moments, the outright statement that Neal can (and has) moved on from Emma before (“If I knew she ok, I could move on”), Charming’s constant “Once you find [true love] it can never be replaced,” the camera purposefully panning to Emma/Hook’s reactions when the other is talking about TRUE LOVE and finding their HAPPY ENDINGS, and now the fact that not only does Hook KNOW who she really is (something that nobody else in her life seems to get yet, even stuff she didn’t want to admit but now has) and ACTUALLY WANTS TO KNOW HER EVEN BETTER vs the guy who, had he known WHO SHE WAS would never have gone near her I just….. Yep, this ship sails itself and they’ve been setting up the slow burn from the beginning. Can’t imagine how anybody thinks this is something new or that we’re still delusional or that it’s one-sided. Emma is becoming more and more impressed and open with him as time goes on and nobody gets the REAL her like he does. Right now it may be mostly Hook, but she is getting closer and closer to accepting just how close she feels to him. Love the gif of Charming reaching for Snow’s hand while Emma puts her arm behind Hook when they’re looking at the map!
YES. It’s all in the body language at the moment. In EVERY SINGLE SCENE together they are leaning towards each other, mirroring each other, oftentimes are VERY close to each other unconsciously. And then there’s tone of voice changes too. It’s all deliberate. As for people who believe they are going to be a brOTP, well, they’re delusional IMO. Or they can’t interpret body language very well. Either way, body language says it all, and it says that Emma is VERY receptive to Hook. It’s her mind that won’t allow her to be.
Yep can’t wait for this Sunday. 😉
Keeper of Captain Swan's first kiss