Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160201202653/@comment-25926288-20160201210227

ItachiIshtar wrote: I do think Eskaver has a point, in regards to whether they would have killed Hook off or not. Love him or hate him, Hook would have still had a large fanbase and the writers still enjoy writing for him. I think had Neal remained alive, they would have kept Hook along for the ride. Either SFer would have become endgame with Hook and Emma's relationship being merely platonic, or CSer would have still slowly happened even with Neal in the picture. This isn't some fandom war or hate-train, lol. This is regardless of fanbase and etc as none of that should make a significant dent in the writing. But as I put it, Neal wouldn't have to change anything and helps everyone around him. (Probably knock off Robin as a regular or Will). It's not what fans want but what the writers have in store for the story and that's something we can never change.

Neal's death sin't anything ground-breaking and you can get to the same ending without much fuss. Even as I dislike the fantonized version of Hook, I don't (and I'm sure many of us) know that life doesn't always come out in our favor.

Anyway, this topic is about what-if so it's totally fine to have wacky and outlandish ideas, but I always keep mine in a realm of my own. Feel free to say Hook becomes mega-evil and trips on Elsa's ice trail and dies, but to each their own.