Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160509005929/@comment-28415255-20160509015844

Your interapretion has some merit, but with what the show showed us, Emma had to let Hook go and her realise that she could not get him back. In your interperation, the lesson has less emotional impact. The lesson that was really expressed by the writers is that when it is time to move on, you dig your heels in the dirt and try absolutely everything to stop no matter the consequence (letting your family get stuck in Hell for all eternity or leaving a child an orhan and a baby girl without a father).