Only problem with making Hook Eric. They want to make CaptainSwan seem like a potential end game relationship so Neal throws a spanner in the work. CaptainSwanFire triangle. Ariel wants Hook. Hook not interested, wants Emma. Ariel upset. If Emma ends up with Neal, it leaves Hook a free agent. Because Hook is Eric, he must end up with Ariel. Hook would be settling for Ariel because he can’t have Emma. Isn’t that unfair on Ariel?
I think there is something off in this reasoning. No one says it is unfair to Hook or Neal that Emma had a thing with Graham.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass