Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160502010041/@comment-24674051-20160504034910

Jordy267 wrote:

One thing that mostly just confused and annoyed me was the scene with the test for Captain Swan's twu luv. I would have thought a scene dedicated to the central theme in this show would be more carefully planned out. First, I never quite understood why Hook's experience in the Navy meant that he could read Ancient Greek. Is he secrelty a multi-linguist who can fluently read almost any language (even for a sailor, you'd probably need an eidetic memory to learn that much in the few years he spent between entering the Navy and becoming a pirate)? Or did he just happen to learn Greek for the hell of it (pun intended)?

Also, I feel like a better test could have been designed to test twu luv. Without all the cheap flame effects. I knew it would have involved Emma putting Hook before herself, so I don't have a problem with the premise they used. But when Hook was surrounded by swirling fire and Emma looked at her heart, for some reason I expected her to have to put her heart in his chest or something. I was surprised that all she had to do was push Hook over, especially when her heart didn't seem to be in any danger - it was just sat there on the scales. I felt like this scene was just a bit unclear, and imo should have been longer. This whole story arc happened because of Emma's love for Hook, it could do them a bit more justice tbf. TBH, I was also a little confused by how easily Hook translated the writing, but it could very well be that much of the writing used in the Navy when Killian was there was still in Greek (or Once's version of it anyway). Remember that he is from a time before anyone in the group except Rumple, and we know very little about the Kingdom that he lived in.

Now, as for the test for True Love, the problem wasn't that her heart was in danger. but once Emma put her heart on the scale, she started dying. She was in mortal danger. And Killian wrapped in flames was in mortal danger, as well, and on top of that was in no position to take any action. The action HAD to come from Emma, and the choice was to either take her heart back (and condemn Killian to the worse place), or save Killian and risk losing her own life. At least that's the way I interpreted the scene, others may have seen it differently.