Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160211135151

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: 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. I'm not. I see what the writers present me, fanservice is a thing the do, they won't admit it, no writer will, but they do it - whether it's ships or too much Disney, they do it. Romantic relationships are ok, but the ships overtook the series, the family doesn't matter anymore. It started with 3B by forcing Regina and Robin together as well as Hook and Emma. I'll agree but it's about word choice.

Family doesn't matter much anymore. And 3a started Regina's predestined love, so it wasn't 3b, but 3b was not long enough to maintain and we probably won't ever know what season 4a was going to be, but definite lost potential in the missing year as we only saw snarky arguing and nothing else. Now with Hook and Emma, force is presenting it too strongly. They didn't force it, they defaulted upon it. It was Hook or Neal, and without Neal it deafaulted to Hook. A terrible choice, but they didn't force it upon the story, they dropped a story point and had nowhere else to go.