Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170421152651/@comment-24264679-20170506231743

CoolDudeAl wrote:  Hook and Rumple and their past is a major plot point. We can't just ignore it. Hook past with Rumple was less of a major plot point than Cora's past with Rumple, Belle's past with Rumple, Neal Past with Rumple, Blue past with Rumple, QOD past with Rumple, etc. If we argue everyone who has a past with Rumple on screen is a major character than danm near all the characters are major characters. Hook's past with Rumple is only a major plot point to Hook but not to the whole show. It was only important in season 2.

Hook had a role to play and at one point it was important but I wouldn't classify his past with Rumple as a major plot point. Rumple past with Hook had no real impact on his life. It didn't set him on the path of becoming the dark one, and it didn't set him on casting the curse either.