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From sincerelygsh:
Let’s first discuss that upon hearing the news, the first thing Emma does is glance at Hook for confirmation. At this point, they’d kissed and cards have been laid bare, there’s an undeniable level of comfort within them. Without the necessity of a verbal declaration, they’ve become partners on this journey. There’s no other plausible explanation as to why she’d look to him instead of her parents other than the fact that it’s become habitual for her, and that demonstrates that there’s a definite level of trust established. Furthermore, while they’re on their way to Echo Cave, she tells her mother about kissing him followed by an “I don’t know I was feeling good.”
Neverland is an interesting place when it comes to its scenery. From Dark Hollow’s red tones to Echo Cave’s blue, it can be argued that the colors can provide a deeper understanding.
Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Hook and Emma have both given one another trust, confidence, faith, truth, and loyalty. It’s entirely wondrous how delicately the scenery’s blue tone offers further depiction of the emotions in this beautifully vital scene.
Echo Cave alone responds to the truth – the darkest secret -; therefore, the colors in the area are without a doubt significant. He’s stating that until he met her, he believed he’d never move on or even be a worthy human being again. When Neal cries out for Emma, she steps back, she’s unsure, frightened, and broken. However, after Hook’s confession, Emma reaches for him to speak before she’s interrupted. She willingly wanted to say something to him, touch him to offer a sense of physical support, and that’s an enormous gesture from Emma.
Hook confesses his secret knowing it’ll build a path to Neal. He knows he could lose her, but believing that it’ll make her happy makes him brave. Because he’s wholeheartedly consumed by his sincere adoration for Emma, he cannot be self-seeking. What Echo Cave authenticated is the conception that no matter how hard his heart crumbles, if it’ll make Emma happy, he’ll always choose her. Once he confesses his secret, he doesn’t expect anything from her and the gorgeous entity of his facial expression is the amount of shock in it. Hook’s always given Emma authority, proving that he ceaselessly believes in her intuitions. He has faith in her. In this scene, he’s surprised and apologetic with his expressions. He fears he’s probably made her upset, but that’s not what Emma’s saying by moving towards him. Emma’s face is filled with ease and sense of uncertainty – as though she’s in disbelief and there’s no way he values her that much. Jennifer Morrison knows Emma more than anyone else and she’s incredibly meticulous with mastering emotions without words, judging by her expression and gestures, we can be certain Emma would’ve said something positive here.
Right before she approaches Neal, she turns back one more time as if she’s searching for the hope and strength he’s continuously given her. We’re already well aware that Emma was afraid to confront her past, but she intuitively reaches for her present and perhaps her future.
It’s certain that in these moments Emma hasn’t fully grasped her feelings for Hook, but these fragments are definitely meant to illuminate the ardent desires within her.
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#but look #flynn and killian even do the same thing with their hands
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From thepirateswan:
CS + “I’d pick you”
I’ve been thinking about this line a lot today and I’m not entirely sure why. But I came to a conclusion that a lot of us came to before, but seem to have forgotten about.
I know a lot of us CSers like to use “As you wish” as a CS line, kind of like Snowings “I will always find you,” but I think “I’d pick you” is much more suitable even now.
The full quote for that line was, of course, “If I had to pick dead guy of the year, I’d pick you.” Not very romantic right? Well neither was Charming’s “I’ll find you!” as Snow when she robbed him and ran off with his jewels. It wasn’t supposed to be romantic, it was supposed to be a threat, a warning. But it turned into something else when they fell in love and were constantly being separated from each other. (Which is one of the beautiful things about Snowing I think, that no matter how far apart they are they will always find a way back to each other, but I digress.)
Now when Emma says her line to Hook, he’s in a hospital bed all beaten up after getting hit by a car. He’d just shot Belle and tried to goad Rumple into killing him – which failed when the car came along but whatever suicidal Killy is very understandable when you look at it from his perspective – and Emma was essentially telling him that she’d be surprised if he survived the week. (She knows what Rumple is capable of after all.)
But the way Emma says it is almost pitying. She can see the pain in him, the self hatred. She can relate to feeling worthless and alone and angry and she connects with him on that level. (Which by no way means she was okay with him shooting Belle, just to be clear.) But as the series progresses we see that, time and time again, they end up picking each other.
First it’s Hook, choosing to come back and help her, taking her to Neverland, making her his reason to change. And then it’s Emma, bit by bit, turning to him for advice, information, support. That last one is huge because never have we seen Emma allow herself to be vulnerable and unsure in front of anyone so easily, take their support so willingly and at face value. (Her entire body relaxes when he tells her he knows she’ll get her son back because he knows she’ll never fail. And that look on her face when she says, “Do you really think so?” is so open, so unsure of herself and so so scared of not being enough, or not being strong or brave or good enough to get Henry back.)
But this theme of choosing keeps going, always subtle, always quiet. Killian chooses Emma over his revenge, chooses love over anger (sound significantly familiar to anyone?) and Emma, well Emma chooses hope.
That last goodbye scene in ‘Going Home’ is so telling for that. She chooses to give him hope, chooses to let herself accept that someone cares for her, someone who has absolutely no obligation to her, but chooses to anyways. Someone who always believes in her and never gives up, always supports her and helps her. Emma sees that, and she chooses to look to Killian when she needs help or support.
So I think “I’d pick you” is such a CS heavy line, even that early on in Season 2. Because that’s what they’ve been doing, picking each other over the mess around them.
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“We need to talk.”
“I’ve found when a woman says that I’m rarely in for a pleasant conversation.”
– Think Lovely Thoughts
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