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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!????? I can’t see it @obisgirl, what’s the scene about?
[adrotate group="5"]Here’s a good essay on Emma and her “attitude”. Maybe we’ve got to stop looking at Emma thru shipper goggles and remember that she is who she’s always been and that’s why Hook loves her.
http://buttercupsandhooks.tumblr.com/post/82002105547/heres-the-thing
Here’s the thing
A lot of you just straight up don’t deserve Emma Swan.
I don’t care if I get hate, I don’t care if I get bitched at, I am simply FED UP with the attitude I’m seeing. It’s the same attitude I have hated about this fandom from DAY ONE. Emma’s feelings don’t matter as much as ~insert love interest here~’s feelings. She’s expected to change and magically be the perfect sparkly unicorn baby that never ever hurts anyone, regardless of her own feelings.
It’s really very simple. Emma is NEVER — repeat after me, N E V E R — going to turn into some fluffy lovebunny for the sake of a ship. Never ever gonna happen. If you expect ANYTHING different out of her, after everything she’s been through, you simply haven’t been paying attention.
Yeah. Hook is doing and saying all the right things. He’s there and he’s perfect for her and we all know it. I say this all as a Killian Jones stan, as well as an Emma stan. And the thing is, she knows it too. She knows it and it terrifies her. You know why it terrifies her? Neal. Walsh. Both these guys all said the right things to her too. They both made her promises and seemed to be perfect on the outset.
And she got her heart broken. Both damn times.
And yet she’s just supposed to JUMP HEADLONG into the next thing, when she’s still freshly off the sting of the Walsh/false memory incident, AND losing Neal? Are you kidding me right now? You want her to be flinging herself at him, giggling and making moon eyes and basically being everything Emma Swan is not?
If that’s what you expect, then you don’t want CS. You want some weird AU bastardization of it. Because, like it or not, this is CS. And Emma is Emma. She is not going to make some big declaration, and you’re going to be waiting a long damn time if you think she will. It’s not gonna slowly build up. She’ll be Emma and keep her walls up until the moment she doesn’t. Anyone remember Good Form? She was pretty damn grumpy with him in that episode and then BOOM.
THAT is Emma Swan. She’ll be guarded until the second her guard drops. She won’t make the decision slowly, it’ll come to her all at once. Everyone keeps saying they expect her to warm up to him, but the thing is that she already IS. In EMMA’S way. Trusting him with her son is no matter to be taken lightly. The fact that she backs off just when things get too intense is no coincidence.
There won’t BE a declaration, because actions speak louder than words. Emma doesn’t make the big declarations unless she thinks it’s her last chance to do so. She’s not gonna just randomly say she’s falling for Hook, she’s going to show it in other ways — ways that are OBVIOUS, if you pay attention and if you know her at all. Regina, in this episode, entrusted Robin with her heart. Likewise, Emma entrusted Killian with her son. It’s the same thing. Emma needs and wants Killian around, and you can bet your ass if he was gone, she’d feel that loss acutely.
Yeah, she keeps her walls up, and she makes her quips and uses sarcasm as a weapon. But the second she realizes that Killian’s serious about wanting to talk to Henry, about wanting to help, you’ll note that all that went away, and it was fluttery lashes and breath catching and heavy swallowing and an awed “You’d really do that?”
What the hell else do you want from her at this point? Honestly, it’s a good damn thing that Killian sees her for what she is and understands her better than some of you people do. He wouldn’t be half so enamored of her if she was anything less than the tough lass that she is, the one who bested him from moment one. He’s in it for the long-haul, remember? He doesn’t need or expect anything from her, but he’s still there for her, which is exactly what she needs.
Anyone who thinks she doesn’t care about him is fooling themselves. Anyone who expects her to behave any differently hasn’t been paying attention. This is the ship. Take it or leave it, but this is exactly what I signed up for when CS took hold. And I wouldn’t have it — or her — any other way.
Okay, I may be the only person here willing to cut Emma some slack. She’s just lost Neal, is lying to her son, has the WW to contend with, and had her whole world (a year with great memories) ripped from under her in less than a week. Yeah, her attitude is starting to grate on me but I think (fingers crossed) next week will mark a turn around for her. Once she sees exactly what the cost was for Hook to come back and “save her” she’ll realize that this guy is worth losing her heart over.
The CaptainCobra scenes were beyond touching. @jenven, I think you are correct in saying that Hook is advocating for Henry now. Hook’s going to do for Henry what he didn’t do for Bae. I see that some people are still upset by the fact that Hook’s betraying Bae to Pan was never addressed. It probably will never be but this to me shows that Hook is more than willing to make up for what he did in NL.
The promo annoyed me. I don’t care if it was a year and he was lost without Emma, I sincerely doubt he’d go back to his philandering ways, like they’re implying. I also wanted a better look at Charles Mesure; I’ll bet he looks hot in that costume.
As much as I enjoyed seeing some back story for the WW, the OQ scenes really made this episode for me. SHE GAVE HIM HER HEART!!!! SQUEEEEEE!!!!! I haven’t been this excited since Good Form…….All I’m saying is that A and E had better keep Sean Maguire on or I’ll be really PO’d.
@KillianJones, another fantastic work of art. Thank you!
Poor Killy…….someone really needs to start explaining things to him if he’s going to stick around SB.
Synopsis of CS in this episode
http://mostlypoptarts.tumblr.com/post/81943421882/shut-up-this-is-exactly-what-happenedYep, that’s exactly what I thought too
Totally unrelated to CS… i just finally watched the Good Wife last 4 episodes…. Noooooooo!
I feel your pain. My ship not only sunk, it crashed and burned first 🙁
I apologize RG, mine was the one you fixed.
Since we’re showcasing the browncoats, Captain Hook and Captain Solo really need to be joined by Captain Mal for the hot man trio.
@priceofmagic after all of the bad blood that has been going on around this forum for the past several months due to “shipping” and the death spoiler, it means a lot ( to me anyway) that you would say that.
I personally had nothing against anyone’s opinion if they genuinely didn’t like the Hook character. Its an opinion and everyone is entitled to their own. What bothered me was the constant character assassination in theorizing events. If something bad was happening “oh it must be Hook”, or “Hook for sure is working with the bad guys”. Even when he did something genuinely good, there was still a perceived selfish reasoning behind it. It got old really fast. And like everyone else on this thread, I too am tired of hearing the same old stories rehashed. I was looking at the chat last night in bed thinking “here we go again”……….
On a happy note, HOOK GOT NEW SEXY CLOTHES!!!
On a sad note, WHY IS HE ALL BUTTONED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I have been wondering and I brought it up in the chat. Do you think it’s possible that Walsh was sent by Zelena cause she found out that hook was on his way to Emma?
It is a strong possibility, but unless Neal brought up sending the letter to Hook in front of Lumiere, WW wouldnt know …. unless Neal/Rumple said something about it while he was under her control, which is a strong possibility.
We still don’t know how long Hook was in our world before he found Emma. She knew Walsh for 8 months so your theory is probable until we know more. I’m coming around to thinking either Rumple or Belle got the message to Hook (and if Ariel had anything to do with it, the money’s on Belle)
Excellent meta @obisgirl. I can’t help but wonder if fate always had other plans for Bae and his death was the fates way of course correcting. I keep harking back to Adam saying that if Neal had stayed with Emma “bad things would happen”. Maybe those bad things had nothing to do with Emma or the curse per se, but more to do with Neal and what would happen if he and his father reconnected. Had Neal not come to SB, neither would have Tamara; Henry might have not been kidnapped, no Pan casting a curse in SB and no WW. Sorry if that was convoluted, but @obisgirl’s meta brought up a lot of questions.
Beautiful vid @stelio, thanks for sharing.
