Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-10663213-20180306175318/@comment-25926288-20180331222151

Aine1989 wrote: Nook's redemption arc was a lot less fleshed out and he pretty much jumped straight from villain to hero, but I think it was okay that they didn't give him a long redemption because they didn't need to repeat what they spent 4 seasons showing. By seeing Hook's redemption arc, we know the kind of person Nook is, so the writers don't need to retread old ground Sure. Though if you noticed closely, the writers were trying to “darken” Nook in Knightfall by showing that he chose pride over Alice. It fell flat. I don’t think it was the writing, but the concept that “Alice will be upset because her papa took a two minute pit stop” and that was quickly overpowered literally by Gothel in the same, continuous scene.

But as always, I just think any version of Hook was small fries to redeem and Nook (and seemingly all WR versions) seem to have less going for them and realistically, (with Hook in part), we could see him moving on and stuff. I don’t want to toss around “hero” and “villain” because the show doesn’t use them correctly.