Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151211170125/@comment-27885419-20160228191731

Farerb wrote: PrettyBlackRosePirate wrote: Eskaver wrote: Nah, Rumple is lucky because he's Robert Carlyle and handsome (in the eye of the beholder as is everyone else).

Regina and Archie.....please no (Plus, he's technically older than Cora). Anyhow, Regina needed no love interest, but Tom Ellis could have spiced things up a little and even could have made Robin and Sheriff brothers, lol. And better story........of course.

But the main topic, Emma's being with any of those candidates are fine, but the serious things I will pose to anyone that supprt CS or against it:

1. Emma's love for her son and her relationship with her parents should be foremost in her lives. And seen on-screen too!

2. Will Emma and Hook break up?

I asked number 2 because every typical true love have a period of space and misunderstand and/or redemption. but I feel liek CS isn't doing that and that's what is hurting it.

Snow and Charming has a misunderstanding when George forced Snow to say those vile things to David and we saw them struggle in David Nolan's lies and cowardice. Rumple and Belle is explanatory. Then there was Emma and Neal, who didtched her and was almost as bad as his father and was working on a path of redcemption. Then we have August who did the same. We also have Graham, maybe. But then there is Hook who really doesn't habve any real issue he didn't already solve "Be good for Emma", yet there's no baggage or strife. All good couples have a period of separation or something. Even Robin and Regina separated and they get like no good story or dialogue or screentime together. You seem hell bent on proving Hook and Emma are not good for each other. Means like really? You need a break-up time period to be "true love" or "good for each other" or whatever?

As for that, well, most of the Storybrooke arc in 5a was their separation/misunderstanding time. But surely that wouldn't count, right? Reason, may I ask?

Snow-Charming misunderstanding was fabricated, they, the ideal couple who fell in love in one day, rarely had a good misunderstanding. Emma-Neal was betrayal, not misunderstanding, whatever be the reasons. He broke her heart, landed her in  jail, pregnant with his child. And then he turns up after a decade, engaged to another girl, and when she turns out to be a bitch, can he really still expect to win Emma back? I don't see how.

Regina and Robin. Well, okay, he sees that he's still married to Marian, and Regina also gives him the green light, so yay, let's make another baby! And pop, Marian turns into Zelena and oh no what did I do moment. And yet Regina accepts her position and gets back with Robin.

Rumple and Belle. Well, even on their wedding day he is found lying to her. He breaks her heart every single time and yet she returns. He claims to love her, but then again he loves his dagger more.

All these cases are less than ideal, and yet you only complain about Captain Swan. I don't know why.

But of course, everyone in entitled to their own opinions. No offense intended. The fact that other relationships are problematic is irrelevant to the fact that Hook and Emma's relationship is problematic. There are threads about Rumple and Belle and Robin and Regina as well. This is a thread about Hook and Emma and how their relationship made their characters devolve, it has nothing to do with preference to other relationship. My previous reply was regarding that. As the topic maker mentioned the other couples, I pointed out that they weren't any less problematic.