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Also, from the most recent Hot Seat:
Could Emma have just put half her heart in Hook’s corpse after he died to revive him? ADAM HOROWITZ: No.
BECAUSE MAYBE THEY AREN’T TRUE LOVE IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY?!
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Are we going to see what happened with Will and Anastasia someday? KITSIS: Someday! Maybe right around when we see Lily and Maleficent. I’ll also believe it when I see it. I’m not holding my breath.
HAHAHAHAH
Will we find out Baby Hood’s name soon? HOROWITZ: Yes. KITSIS: This weekend. This. Weekend.
It’s Robin. We know.
Will the sleeping curse have any adverse effects on Belle or her baby?
KITSIS: Can’t say.
Because they don’t know.
Will there be an engagement in the last few episodes of season 5?
KITSIS: Nope.
LOL . So Chekov’s Ring will just sit thee for another season. Kay
Will we get to see what happened to Lily and Maleficent and who Lily’s dad is?
HOROWITZ: Next season. Oh yeah, we’ll have plans. You’ll see, hopefully they’ll be great.
KITSIS: I’ll say this, we hear the fans. We know what stories you feel like we’ve dropped, and we’ve got an episode for you next year.
HOROWITZ: We’ve got some plans to try to address many of those things next season.
I’ll believe when I see it
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"But *why* NYC? What does that have to do with anything?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"It’s hard not to roll my eyes at these articles
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Updates after May 5. New ones in Bold
Number of couples having sex, kissing or saying “I Love You” for the first time: 20
1. AIRED April 29: Klaus and Cami say “I love you”/The Originals
2. AIRED April 29: Hank and Zuri have sex/Grimm
3. AIRED May 1: Zelena and Hades share first kiss/Once Upon a Time
4. AIRED May 2: Mary and Gideon have sex/Reign
5. AIRED May 2: Xo and Esteban/Jane the Virgin
6. AIRED May 3: Severide and Stella/Chicago Fire
7. AIRED May 3: Jimmy and Sara kiss/Grandfathered
8. AIRED May 4: Roman and Burgess have sex/Chicago P.D.
9. AIRED May 4: Jamal and Derek (D-Major) have sex/Empire
10. AIRED May 4: Layla and Avery have sex/Nashville
11. AIRED May 5: Aubrey and Jessica kiss/Bones
12. AIRED May 5: Oscar and Charlotte have sex/The Odd Couple
13. AIRED May 5: Monty and Harper have sex/The 100
Number of couples reuniting: 7
1. AIRED April 28: Owen and Amelia/Grey’s Anatomy
2. AIRED May 5: Carter and Kendra/DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
3. AIRED May 5: Sara and Nyssa (as seen in flashback)/DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Number of breakups/divorces: 10
1. AIRED April 28: Stephanie and Kyle/Grey’s Anatomy
2. AIRED April 28: Cyrus and Michael/Scandal
3. AIRED May 1: Emma and Hook/Once Upon a Time
4. AIRED May 4: Scarlett and Gunnar/Nashville
5. AIRED May 5: Kendra and Ray/DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
6. AIRED May 5: Susan and David/Scandal
Number of engagements/question poppings: 6
1. AIRED April 29: Matt and Penny/The Vampire Diaries
2. AIRED May 2: Mary and Dudley/Reign
3. AIRED May 5: David and Susan/Scandal
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"That was…..well played Hades
Also, he literally pulled that thingy out of his coat pocket like he’s been carrying it around all this time. Sweet mercy.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Do you think Emma is still a “hero” worth rooting for?
I’m going to break this down into two different questions.
1) Is Emma still a hero? At the end of day, yes. Maybe not a very likable one, but there’s nothing wrong with unlikable heroes. She’s still the Savior; she’s still trying to defeat evil and save people she loves. If we define heroism like Belle with characteristics like bravery, compassion, and forgiveness, then Emma is still a hero. And, if done well, that one trait–heroism–is capable of overriding other character flaws and traits. Even outside of fiction we tend to forgive heroes anything because of “hero” status.
2) Is Emma still a person to root for? For me, no. Not really. There has always been a juvenile quality to Emma’s characterization, something JMo has talked about (playing Emma like she’s a teenage boy). I used to find it endearing because it meant there was so much room for growth. A classic bildungsroman along with her hero journey. However, the writers constantly put Emma’s emotional state back to zero every season so that any growth or development previous is almost totally undone by the next arc (how many seasons do we really need to hear about her walls, after all?) There is also the fact that he motivation for actions has, in the past few seasons, gone from her concern for her family–both blood and communal–to romantic-one person, all the time. There is a very large debate that rages over what it means to call a character weak. Most people who don’t want to call Emma weak say that being in love isn’t a sign of weakness and that it takes great strength to be vulnerable enough to let love in. I agree; however this isn’t what we mean when we say Emma has become a weak character. It means that her story isn’t her own; it’s Hook’s. Or maybe more fairly, it’s CaptainSwan’s. Everything about Emma has come down to her romantic relationship. Her own Dark Swan arc which was a chance to really delve into her lost-child, orphan psyche became all about her boyfriend. Her family–blood and communal–played almost no role and her entire metaphorical katabasis was centered around one person and one person only (doubly damning is the fact that her literal katabasis is also centered around one (the same!) person). I don’t object to characters falling in love and exploring what it means to be in a relationship as opposed to be single. I mind terrible though when that relationship takes over the entire person’s story so that nothing else matters.
Emma could still be a person to root for, but it means recentering her story so that it includes other things BESIDES her romantic entanglements.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I don’t think Robin’s death triggers Hook’s return, but rather it comes down to awkward timing. Hades kills Robin with that Olympian Crystal, and I’m still guessing that Zeus is responsible for bringing Hook back via the ambrosia. I guess it’s a life for a life in the sense that the writers felt that there needed to be another major death in return for Hook coming back. I’m sure from Regina’s point of view, she’ll end up blaming Emma, since Robin wouldn’t have died had they not gone to the Underworld in the first place.
It’s a mockery. Wonder what A&E meant that the episode would break hearts as well as ignite hope …
I suspect the ignite hope is something like “hope because Regina is going to resist going evil queen because of the death of a loved one! Look how far she came!”
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
