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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote:

Meanwhile Hook's was "Do this....for revenge." and he was all for it. Signs of a struggle at least. But getting baclk to this epiosde, there should have been signs of a struggle in tis episode. He struggled with revenge and father, but in the present day, he flipped a switch as if he's some robot. I guess another problem was that episodes 5.08, 5.10, and 5.11 all took place within 24 hours. When was there time for any of the characters to think? Everyone was in Storybrooke for 3 weeks, and the climax was a 12 hour period. Yeah, that's a TV problem where it's highly unrealistic timing.

I can pass Hook's stuff off as he never had time to think. But then gaian, the characters never have down time and when they do, they have it at the wrong time. So, I still feel as though Hook's last minute swtich was unearned as Reigna's was and Regina was going the whole season about happiness, but even so, a random flashback does make things acceptable.

Cora telling Regina in a flashback that she is stnding in her own way of happiness is supported by her dream sequence, but her change happened as if she was magically conked on the head. Same with Hook. He had a moment about being the person he wants to be, but then in the finale it's like he was cocked on the head and realized the epiosde's theme.

I have my problems with Hook. I have my problems with the show's sense of morality, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out and shouldn't take long to figure out that he shouldn't be trying to kill off his love's family. Say what you want about their relationship, but look underneath all the pretty and you see the ugly. He sat there happily condemning the beloved's family of people that he befriended to death, but then saw his beloved choking to change. That may not bother you, but let's recap:

Hook is "killing"  or allowing the killing of:

- Emma's parents, whom she worked hard to love and to find.

- Emma's friends

- But more importantly, Emma's son

I may often hearken back to season 3 being the good old days, but nothing stood between Emma and her son. Not Regina, not her parents, and not love interest # 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Now, there's this pesky puppy love that pushing between Emma's love for her son and herself. Pretty much her romance with Hook is like the dagger to Rumple and Baelfire. Nothing ever stood between Rumple and Bae. Rumple crippled himself to see his son. Rumple became the dark One to save his son. But then the dagger came and rsiked the wellbeing of his son. Rumple's a bad, bad man. But Replace Rumple with Emma, Bae with Henry and the dagger with Hook. Alter some of the situations and it's pretty much similar.

I like Hook a bit and it's understandable that Emma has a love interest. It's even passable with the extreme levels of forgiveness, but at this point her relationship with Hook is hurting and has hurted relationship with Henry.