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Aine1989 wrote: Farerb wrote: This was the weekest episode in 5B.

A few points:

While I'm glad that Emma was blamed for being selfish. I wish it came from other characters and I don't feel like it was portrayed as something serious that she needs to learn from, basically it was used as a "clue" that something is wrong with Liam and not as observing some kind of flaw with Emma. By the end of the episode, Emma didn't learn anything or didn't grow as a character.

In addition, while I agrre that Emma has become selfish, I still think that she is too good for a murdering jerk who still keeps things from his victims. I really don't get why they need to portray Hook as a martyr, he is not a martyr, he has done horrible despicable things, stop whitewash him. It's as if they are insecure about what the viewers think about him so they have to shove what a great guy he is down our throat.

Moreover, the excuse of Hook doing all those horrible things because Emma pissed him off is not acceptable. This is yet again a depiction of the battered wife syndrom. She wasn't balmed for that though. He was. The whole of that episode was showing that it was his weakness.

Also the show does not whitewash him. That would be acting like his villainy never happened. What does happen is he develops. When have they ever delt with his past crimes whether they were in flashbacks or season 2? When was he confronted for bullying a cripple? For selling a young boy to people who could have hurt him? For helping killing a village and using their bodies as a cover? For sexually assault almost every woman on the show ("when I job you with my sword...")? For leaving 4 innocent women to die (just like Hans did in Frozen) ? For kidnapping Archie? For shooting Belle? (oh wait that did happen, it was "sorry?!?"), for allowing a man die for his ship? For using Belle as a means to blackmail Rumple instead of warning her?

All of those were ignored and swept under the rug thus whitewashing him. He was a villain in season 2 and all of a sudden without any build up he was into Emma and "good" or "redeemed" in season 3. They constantly keep telling us he's redeemed and he's a hero, but it was never shown and he keeps acting like an ungreatful jerk.