Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26785424-20151013025944/@comment-27138802-20151030152020

Well, there are things such as foils and alternatives, so it's perfectly fine that Hook is fairly similar, but he has his differences.

I wouldn't say sexism, but a misconstrued "strong female"ism. Hook isn't whitewashed, much more than Regina in show. The only one that gets no slack is Rumple, even getting called evil by the creators last season, but even he can't escape bad writing. When i say bad, I don't mean poor writng, but just that it's not doing what they think it's doing.

I would ignore fans because some irrationally hate and love characters without not taking a subjective look at the character. Hook (on show) questions his heroism and doubts it. Regina doesn't doubt her heroism which kind of makes it annoying. Hook displays more self-awareness, but is usually the one caught in his impulsiveness. Regina is the opposite. The show doesn't favor one over the other in my opinion. It's the fans that do so and sometimes it really gets to you. I can get on a CS forum board and they fawn over evry little thing Hook does. I can get on a SQ board and they fawn over evry Regina thing and despise the male love interests. I can get on a RB board and they critique both Regina and Hook, but usually they even question Rumple, but get wooby after one sad scene.I don't know of any OQ boards, lol.

But there's that. Hook isn't a bad character, but he has a hard time getting out of that bad boy gets the good girl and has a heart of gold cliche that gets recycled time and time again.

The show isn't sexist, just weaker males that try to exude strength and strong females that often have times of weakness.

A gotcha. No character can escape the brilliancy of OUAT's writers lol.