Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20151224174750/@comment-25926288-20160103175120

Keep Calm and let's discuss.

Hook has very little chance of staying dead because they never drag on anything past an arc, aka Dark Swan. Everyone and their mother knew that DS was likely ending in 5a. So, Hook will return and I wouldn't say he brings in viewers and that sort of means nothing anyhow because Elsa and Anna brung in more viewers than you can make up that Hook brought because the demo was double what ever it is now. And we see they didn't stay. (And yes, I'm being harsh on the Hook-love because somebody's got to XD)

But it is true, he is a polarizing figure as is Regina and they won't ever go anywhere. Emma's likely to go before Hook or Regina, XD, especially if you see how ABC markets and promotes (besides Dark Swan).