Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171014032523/@comment-1916997-20171014123837

For everyone saying Wish Hook is a completely different character, that's not completely true. As Wish Hook explains in the episode (and as we also saw last season in the Wish Realm), the Wish characters had more or less the same backstory, up until the part where Regina would have cast the curse. At this point, the timelines seperated, and other things happened to the Wish Realm characters. So Wish Hook still has the same memories as real Hook, up until a bit before Regina would have cast the Dark Curse. From there, different things happened, like Wish Hook having a daughter.