Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26644233-20150711060847/@comment-24674051-20150716140321

I'll have to disagree about Hook stupidly blackmailing people. The only person he REALLY blackmailed was Gold, and you can blame that not on Stupidity, but on 200+ years of animosity (which does not get resolved in a single week-long boat trip to Neverland, and I'm actually glad they revisited that relationship). Besides, as we saw in the episode where he got his hand back, there is still more than a little pirate inside him. It's bound to come to the surface from time to time.

I think we will see more of Hook, but hopefully they won't stick with the "doe-eyes" growth. For example, Rumple and Killian still have a little resolution. Because, let's face it, Killian stole Milah (or Milah ran away with Killian) before Rumple became the Dark One, so there should still be some animosity between these two. Let's play on that character growth for both Hook and Gold, learning to forgive and move on from past grievances. Now THERE's a message of hope that could use some reinforcement.