Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31937823-20180102211252/@comment-2153169-20180102211846

Without changing too much, like you, I'd say:
 * 1) Scrap the entire dumb Dark Hook plot, and make the Dark Swan the REAL villain from A to Z. That's the main problem of this 5A. Dark Swan had SO MUCH potential by the end of S4, and they ruined it when they made Hook the co-DO and Emma just pretending to be evil.
 * 2) Have Emma sacrificing herself at the end of 511. She'd ask Hook to kill her and they all go to the Underworld to save her, rather than Hook. It would have been more believable, and a stronger cliffhanger.

Just these two points would have made the entire 5A much better than it is.