Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151211170125/@comment-26159109-20160122202223

Eskaver wrote: Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: Think of it as hindsight, Farerb. Chances are they didn't know Regina would be quite popular so they likely didn't plan for her redemption to start as soon as it did. Likewise with developing pretty much Belle, Hook, etc.

Anyhow, I would easily disagree with the post in part because Hook didn't really do that to Emma. It's more of a "Charming" problem that the writers developed. Remember how Snow stuck up for the little people Regina tryannized? Well, now since season 3b and onwards she only cares about herself and her circle of friends. Same with Emma.

Real part is look how they all threat Belle. Belle was someone who was roughly there for several seasons and she's not given a care. When Belle asks for help, they just dismiss her and never notice if she isn't there. But that's a separate issue.

I'll say that Hook-Emma is likely for the Teen demo as hilariously on IMDB or Hulu had Once under the Teen genre. LOL. Hook and Emma relationship does not feel like an adult relationship. They always have teenage angst, which is weird seeing on 30 year olds. All their dialogues are an undying love proclamation and Hook's women conquests jokes, I think the most realistic thing they ever talked about was watching something on Netflix.

And that is the main problem with this pairing and why it feels forced and unrealistic. Hook, unlike Neal, Graham, August and even Walsh, is not grounded in the real world (a problem that Regina and Robin also share), he doesn't have a real job, he doesn't have any money, he doesn't know how technology works, so what do he and Emma, which has lived her whole life in the real world, have in common? What do they talk about when they have a quiet little moment without all the action or drama? Don't you know? They were abandoned as kids, so that's presumably all they have in common. Hook and Emma aren't too childish for me to disregard them. I mean at least better than Regina and Robin who are polar opposites, but have a child and no partner (Genius! Those two single parents should get together because noone would see that coming!)

Emma worked with everyone else because it was reality and reality drifting into fiction, but now Emma loses that real world-ness and is pretty much not apart of either. Anyhow, I was rewatching some of their scenes and I posted in the "Neutral to Hook" discussion, that Hook has some terrible flirts. I mean I saw the backlash at Hook trying to look sexy on their date. (Know of that look?) Well, he did it in that CS vs SF episode and a few other times that I almost felt like this was some sort of comedy. :Lol, just look real close to him flirting with Emma in 3a and you'll see it.

Hook is a decent character and Emma was one, but they had no need to get together. Clearly they follow the "The lead woman must have a lead man" and we all know Rumple is the series villain and part-foil to Emma, but clearly not Disney tweeb attractive to be the lead he should be. Yes, they were good characters. Hook had no reason to be on the show after 3A, they ruined the integrity of the story by keeping him and forcing his relationship with Emma.

I never understood their need to have Emma and Regina be with men and make those men their whole purpose and motivation in the story and disregard any other relationship they have with other characters. However, if they really had the need to have them be with men, why not have them be with men that actually make sense. Emma had three different options other than Hook and all of them made more sense. And Regina, well I thought about it recently and wondered why couldn't they develop Regina and Archie's relationship into something more than just a doctor-patient relationship, he did try to help her and reason with her after the curse was broken, instead of judging her. That would never happen because he is not hot enough, and we all know that only hot people and Rumple deserve someone to love them.