Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160223052411/@comment-1916997-20160223164457

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: While the points made above are correct, I don't think it was an accident that Emma and Hook also had a shared moment on the beanstalk. So to me they were definitly planting seeds for Emma and Hook in this episode, ironically enough when climbing the giant's beanstalk, which as we know in the traditional story grows overnight from a tiny seed. Might be some symbolism there, don't you think? I think people saw more than what there is because most people have a mindset that if we see a men and a women on an adventure together then it has to involve some kind of romance and not something platonic.

The same thing can be said about Anton, but people didn't see him as a love interest. Why? Why? Why people didn't see him as a love interest?!?

Like it was said above, I don't think Emma and Hook were the point of that episode. It was about Emma and her trust viewed and paralleled with various characters - Neal, Snow, Hook, Anton and even Mulan. Well, at the very least, Hook was flirting with Emma, so it was not completely platonic, at least not on Hook's end.