Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171014032523/@comment-25733960-20171014071425

JennaMae wrote: DeviousPeep wrote:

Anyways, I think the best way to have handled Emma's departure while keeping Hook on the show would've been to just have Emma be back in Storybrooke with Hook working to get back to her. I think that would've been simple enough and a better way of keeping viewers invested in the hopes Hook would eventually find his way back to her. Instead they get their ending handed to them and we get to watch Colin O'Donoghue run around another 20 episodes playing a plot contrivance. I seriously don't understand why they didn't just go with this. Literally the simplest option. The curse will be broken, everyone will remember, he'll go home. They don't even have to show Emma again. I don't think those fans would actually be worried that they won't end up happy. And now on top of Snow, Charming, Belle, and Emma fans no longer being invested, they're opening the door for the Hook fans to leave as well, even though Colin is still on the show. There's no good reason to have the real Regina and Rumple, but come up with a weird cop-out to make it a different Hook. Heck, isn't the split Evil Queen technically Regina too? Why didn't she show up in the New EF? A weird way to handle things all around. Because they need flashbacks for Hook. Now we know that WHook somehow met Lady Tremaine before and also had a daughter. They couldn't do this with the real Hook because at that time he was on Storybrooke.

Of course the whole thing is just an excuse to keep Colin in the show. But the question is does the show need Colin so bad that they had to write this contrived storyline only to keep him on the show? I know Colin is on contract, but couldn't they just use him as a guest character, appering here and there in flashbacks or such.

They could have used another character for that. Like Zelena, as others pointed out. Or heck, even August