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Don’t know if this has been posted here before, but I just found the short film that Colin did called The Euthanizer (2009) online. It’s supposed the be a black comedy, but I found it quite dark. This is the link in case anyone is interested in watching.
Ohh! Thanks for the link. I quite enjoyed that. 🙂
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Just to change the subject, I’m curious about Emma’s magic. I saw an AU the other week about her magic corrupting her. (I don’t normally go in for AUs, but this one seemed interesting) Do you think they’ll head Emma down a path where her magic becomes more dominant of her? That she’ll become more reliant on it? Regina said she had a lot of potential, even managing mirror magic without being really told how to do it. “Look inside yourself” isn’t a recipe for a spell. Although it’s obvious that Emma doesn’t even need spells, she closes her eyes and thinks and boom things happen. Who knows what could happen if she continues down that path? When she rescued Henry from Zelena, was she thinking about *exactly* what happened – ie Zelena’s hands burning – or did her magic ‘choose’ the best option for her? What happens if she closes her eyes, thinks and something very unexpected happens? Or is Emma too ‘good’ for her magic to steer her wrong?
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
People don’t need to be physically addicted to abuse a substance – sadly common misunderstanding. There are different stages of addiction: Experimentation, regular use, abuse/risky behavior, dependency. In other words, particular if it comes to alcohol a lot more people have problems with it than most of us notice or acknowledge. I am not sure what they are doing though with Hook here. Is it for jokes, the pirate trope (they drink rum don’t they) or as character issue – I am not sure. It could make sense, that he began getting lost in alcohol at times to numb the pain of losing Milah, and it became a habit to hit the bottle once in a while, as much as taking a sip has become a ritual of reassurance, that he is a pirate and doesn’t care much anyway. To me there are not little signs, Hook is abusing alcohol – but I am not so sure if the writers actually share that view.
I want to partially agree with you here. That, yes as a society people have more problems with alcohol that they want to admit, but I think to say Hook is ‘abusing’ alcohol is too extreme. I don’t see it as abusing, I see it as him using alcohol as any normal person would – and this is the point where it become grey in terms of what a ‘normal’ person perceives as abuse or just acceptable consumption.
Yes, he takes a belt from his flask every now and then, but most of the time he’s in company and in celebration/commiseration/solidarity. Robin and Charming have also admitted to having hidden flasks to take a cheeky quiet nip from too. Somehow to me, Charming’s flask hiding is more concerning, as during Neverland he used to wince every time he took a nip from Hook’s flask, but he didn’t bat an eyelid later on – insinuating he’s become used to the taste and therefore has been drinking a lot!
The main difference I can see is that Hook carries his flask with him. Which somehow makes it worse because he has easy access to it? It’s a crutch? We have seen him use his rum medicinally as well (sterilising Emma’s hand, rousing Charming from unconsciousness) so he’s not too adverse to ‘wasting’ it. In these instances his flask can be classified as a tool of the trade, that he needs it for wounds (and he used to get injured a lot!) or literal painkilling – he probably doesn’t know about paracetamol – so it makes sense to carry it around.
Anyway, I just think it’s ‘he a pirate and pirates like rum’ but no worse than that.
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
Oh! I want one of these. Can we have this for Killian next season? Pretty please?
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
I’ve only really been in character threads, so not much hook hate in those, if any. 🙂
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
I’ve been lurking around here on the other threads, but no other forums.
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
All I can say is “Awwwww” 🙂
Although a blind horse would have seen those feelings that have clouded Emma’s judgement around Killian ever since the flippin beanstalk!
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
Because that would mean the characters (read: writers) would have to recognize that Neal was a true hero.
The Charming line at the ‘coronation’ ceremony of “we name him for a hero, someone who saved every one of us” isn’t the characters recognising Neal was a hero?
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
Aww cute! Harry Potter much?
It’s nice to see the eyebrow quirk was there from a young age 😉
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
As I see it, Hook was/is not evil, he was deeply wounded and profoundly angry. Because he acted out defensively and violently against the personally tragic and hurtful happenings of his life does not make him evil, but it did make him somewhat dangerous, passionately tortured and constantly struggling to overcome his seething anger ( which he often drowned with numbing alcohol or barricaded behind cocky attitude)
Agreed! He is a man very much ruled by his heart.
If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a little social awkwardness
