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GothicNarcissus wrote: If they focussed more on explainatory flashbaks instead of rather useless ones as the fake Excalibur, Ariel's, Hook's or Medusa's, it would have looked less like retconning old stuff and writhing new one just to fit the arc than it ended up doing. I fail to see how Hook's flashback, retconned anything. It was hinted several times, during S2, that Hook had been to Neverland before Rumplestiltskin cut off his hand.

Good Form did for Captain Hook, what The Shepherd did for Prince Charming. It flipped what you thought you knew, about the character, on its head. The netorious, pirate Captain Hook used to be a Navy Lieutenant. Just like the dashing, regal Prince Charming was originally a common, impoverished shepherd-boy.