Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160211133640

Well, view it "no ships attached" and it'll be fine. You're kinda viewing the show as the shippers do, hilariously. I do get around to several of the major ships and their boards and you have to distance yourself to a degree from ships as the writers don't make ships, they make characters and story plans.

The point of 3b was "No place like home" for Emma as was stressed heavily in the finale. What many of the shippers (irnonically) and the antis see is Hook and Emma, when it was not only that, but the shipping nonsense blots out evrything else.

I'll give you an example. Hook sacrificed himself in Swan Song. Ship (CS)-wise, they saw it as romantic and et cetera. The Others saw it as disgusting. I see it as both, well, not romantic. It was more of Hook trying to get back on the road of redemption and Emma antagonistically preventing his path. Maybe you can see what I'm talking about? So, some see it as good for Emma, some bad for Emma, but always one-sided. Emma is being tarnished, but so is Hook's redemption and pretty much every character.