Oh what a character!

[sparkythegeek.livejournal.com]

1. What do you like about Hook?

2. What would you change about Hook?

3. Thoughts on how his story tied to Rumple as the crocodile?

4. Was Milah his true love?

5. How choppy are the waters for his relationship with Emma as we go into season 4?

Comments

[mommanerd.livejournal.com]

2. What would you change about Hook?

Truthfully, I'm very happy with the way his story has been handled thus far. I would maybe have liked him to not attempt to kidnap Henry, even as a means of keeping him safe, but beyond that, I'm good with the captain.

I like to think that Hook does bad things for a good reason. Not that he's justifying the things he really shouldn't have done, but that the viewers can understand how his thinking got twisted around and he forgot to check his moral compass along the way. Emma is coming under all sorts of criticism from the fans and the characters on the show for her rescue of Marian. How ironic that Hook was the one voicing the problem to her. Looking back on that, of the two of them, which one was wrong and which one was right?

[dani-ellie.livejournal.com]

I completely agree that Hook was trying to do the right thing in his attempt to get Henry the hell out of Storybrooke, and in its own way, it's not unlike when Emma tried to do the same thing way back at the end of season one. It was wrong, but you could understand where they both were coming from.

In terms of Marian, you'll find no complaints from me about Emma saving a woman's life. The real issue with changing the past was the potential catastrophic results of changing the timeline. Hook and Emma end-ran around those potential catastrophic results by bringing Marian forward with them. The potential consequences to the present weren't really the problem, and really, Emma reunited a family. Little Roland has his mother back. That's a good thing, in my eyes, and if it hadn't maybe broken up Outlaw Queen, Emma saving Marian would have been celebrated.

Plus, I find it really hard to feel sorry for Regina that her boyfriend's dead wife is back when she was the one who was supposed to have killed her in the first place. ;)

[mommanerd.livejournal.com]

Plus, I find it really hard to feel sorry for Regina that her boyfriend's dead wife is back when she was the one who was supposed to have killed her in the first place.

Totally ditto!

[dani-ellie.livejournal.com]

Yay! I've found that to be kind of an unpopular opinion within the fandom at large, heh. For me, it's a level of squick that I just can't handwave away.