Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-10663213-20180306175318/@comment-35972039-20180915141847

i still think. the only reason goldenook had replaced captaincrocodile's s2-6 rivalry in s7, was bc show needed another captaincharming2.0. and our rumple with wish/hook fit the billing. i bawled like baby with goldenook's reconciliation, the friendships grew more than i thought it would. rumple died for nook in the end. wish/captaincrocodile wouldv buried the hatchet too, but never got the chance. bobby was remarkable whenever he played rumple and he's also 1of colin's heroes. so many chances colin got to work with bobby were always fantastic. i always looked forward to a captaincrocodile rivalry / goldenook broTP scene, tbh.

i know for a fact that they both hated the feud-rivalry that lasted as long as rumple had been the dark one, or since the night killian met milah. s7 made me adore nook more than OGhook. im sorry. a&e did what they did bc they didnt want the fans ticked off abt captainswan not in the final season as much since Jmo left and we only saw her twice and emma mentioned several times off-screen or in conversation. the difference b/w nook&hook is. like others have said, they are the same, just alternate timelines. and i totally agree with what everyone has said so far.

the wish variants felt like a joke, rip-offs the originals and they were created from Emma's wish of "I wish I was never the Savior" which brought throughout the worst running gag ever in ouat's history. altho wish-rumple stayed true to our rumple's former persona and raging temper, did once care for Belle (until he found her bones once Regina released him from Snowing's dungeon of Rumple's cell) and that wish-rumple locked up his own father, the same way our goldenpan did in 3A with pandora's box, so to speak. it did make a comeback for rumbelle, though that backfired when Hyde got ahold of her. i mean captainswan had captaincobra, just like gothelnook had knightrook if that makes any sense bcos i still had hoped wish/alice was an adult hope jones, had jmo not decided to leave but i was wrong.

knightrook/madarcher grew on me fast too so when OGhook was like his own character having himself entangled with all of the Stiltskin's at some point from s2-6 as Rumple's father indirectly killed his brother Liam I. Rumple killed his first love, Milah, tho she was Rumple's first. Rilah's son Nealfire hated him, bc not only did his potential father figure take his own mother from him as a boy, but he also planned on taking his baby mama after the latter said, she would always choose her son and not one of them. When Neal died. Killian was haunted by his father's betrayal, his new family, named his third son after his first son, he felt betrayed, and left his younger half-brother like his father did, an orphan, cut to when Hook fought Liam II to save Henry's life. thats when i truly thought captaincobra was worth saving +nookbeliever was weird.

So yes, Killian had a love-hate friendship with Belle in s6 and i say this bcos he was also willing to kill Rumbelle's son, Gideon who was going to take Emma from him... when no one ever asked him why he wanted to kill her, yet he tells his parents why. I mean, TeamEmma always jumped to conclusions and never looked at the facts in front of them where Snowing, CaptainSwan, WickedQueenBeliever were willing to kill a son, who was confused, manipulated, heartless-controlled by Rumple's evil mother bc of Belle's actions of sending her only child away with the one fairy who the darkest fairy of all hated more than any other character. No one cared about what Belle felt, Gideon was her son too, not just Rumple's, they all agreed they would kill her son, if he tried to kill Emma. just saying IMHO that was way off for the writers to turn TeamEmma against Rumbelle in that entire episode all bc it was Gideon, who had no choice. Going back to 4B how these so-called heroes were acting like anti-heroes, bc it was Emma's life on the line.

Cutting back to Nook. he was tricked as well when he thought he had fallen in love with Rapunzel (who turned out to be an adult Lady Tremaine) but in reality, this false-ID of her was Mother Gothel trapped in the tower she kept Rapunzel in for years on end. IDKY Nook was meant to be the illusion of Flynn Rider as Gothel was like the embodiedment of Tangled's namesake, but much worse. How Alice was brought into that parental drama, she was kept away from her father, told her mother did it all to them and for what reason?! bc Gothel wanted to find the Guardian when it was her own daughter that whole time.

Aside from the toxic relationship that was Gothelnook and how adorable Knightrook became in the end. Wickednook both shipped MadArcher sm as Rumple had when he said what he said to Alice abt Robin "you will fall in love, you will grow old together, you'll have a happy ending. free of towers." always liked Goldenwonders as it was nice to see Wickednook as Wickedhookedgold despised one another for several seasons before they all reconciled their differences as well. also does anyone else think, now Nook has Rumple's heart, even tho wishRumple was theDarkone, dont you think Nook is the new Dark one? IDKY it seemed logical to me at time, i mean OUaT without a darkone is like saying, that dagger without Rumple is bad enough xD Hook's redemption arc always had me conflicted, Nook's always reeled me back in for more, but i loved wishBlackbeardedNook. i mean those2 were hilarious fooling Henry the way they did. man im still gutted this show has ended.

OK now im done. apologies for the long post. sorry in advance. xo~BEC