Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160223052411/@comment-27851822-20160223055527

Farerb wrote:I agree. I think a lot of people decide to overlook that Neal provided Emma with her first home. I don't think there was anything with Hook in that episode that wasn't with Snow or Anton. It was about Emma's past, Emma's problem with trusting people, which was paralled with Anton not abling to trust people as well. Tallahasse was also a set up for Manahattan which wouldn't have been a great episode without this one. Yeah, the parallel was Emma's loss of home with Neal to Anton's loss of home with all the dead giants. The meaningful conversation Emma had was with Anton and then with Snow. The entire time Emma is up in the beanstalk, they show Snow on the ground waiting for her. The show Snow attack Mulan because she hit the beanstalk. Then we see Emma do something she has never done before, she hugs Snow first. She hugs Snow instead of Snow hugging her. Then Snow says we go back together. That is the parallel. Hook was only in those scenes so they could be left and could go back to Cora so that Snow and Emma could continue on their quest to get back to Henry without him. Emma leaves Hook there because she knows she can't trust him and then she goes back to her mom who is waiting for her at the bottom of the beanstalk. That's what happened in the episode.