Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140606234443/@comment-91424-20140615235121

'' "Hook only wanted sex". '' Excuse me? Hook was not after sex. He loves Emma. Have you even watched the show...? In "Ariel", when everyone have to admit their darkest secret in the Echo Caves, he says, to Emma, " My secret is that I never thought I'd be capable of letting go of my first love, my Milah. To believe I could find someone else. That is…until I met you." The bridge appears. If what he said was not true, it would not have worked. And in "The Jolly Roger", he admits to "Ariel" (Zelena) that he loves Emma, and Zelena says, "When you invoked the name of your love in a selfish plea for redemption, I was able to curse you..." She was able to curse his lips because of his love for Emma. That was the key. And you're telling me he was only after sex...?

'' "The only rebuttals the the people against the rape culture could produce was two of the MAIN excuses rapist come up with. Mixed signals and she really didn't mean it when she refused. and that the people who make this claim hate the couple ( which i know not to be true)."  Okay, seriously, now it's quite obvious that you have not read what people write on this thread: Several people here have pointed out that she did not'' refuse him, and carefully explained why. You, on the other hand, do not explain why you think they are wrong, you just choose to ignore it. And I pointed out earlier that she was interested in him all along, but you choose to ignore that too. And then you claim that the only counter-arguments we've used, are the ones you mention...?



'' "Emma, an emotionally damaged person, was pursued by Hook. Emma kissed Hook (after he saved her father) then said it was nothing. Everything after that was her refusing Hook's advances. Then finally she just gave in to Hook.. The point is if you try hard enough you can get someone's love, even if they seemingly don't want to give it." '' Again: Have you even watched the show? Emma was clearly interested in Hook all along. It's quite obvious, from the way she looks at him (for example, when the group is making ropes in Neverland ("Good Form"), the scene where he says he will win her heart ("Dark Hollow",) when Hook says his goodbyes ("Going Home"), when they talk about Walsh breaking her heart ("The Tower"), when he offers to  tell Henry about Neal ("It's Not Easy Being Green"), etc.). And she never tells him that she does not want him, that she wants him to leave her alone, that she does not like what he's doing, that he must stop, etc. Emma  didn't mind that the was trying to win her heart. She trusted him, and he had become a friend. The problem, was not that she wasn't interested (because she was interested), the problem, was that she was afraid of entering into a new relationship because of what happened with Neal, and then Walsh. Eventually, in "There's No Place Like Home", she realises that Hook is the right one for her, and she has no reason to shut him out. She does not "give in to Hook", she does not give in to pressure, she returns his feelings. Period.

'' "Emma drank whiskey before she kissed Hook". '' Excuse me? She took  one  sip (and it was rum, not whiskey), and kissed him less than a minute later. Not enough drink, and not enough time, to get intoxicated. It was not drunk kissing. Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Stop harping on about this, it's just stupid.