Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151217193854/@comment-25926288-20151218124741

CoolDudeAl wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote: I would say not necessarily. I think they like the marketability to the lowest common denI mean teen girls of the Twilight era.

they saw that potential, but I don't think they give a care about the writing around his character or the actor. Clearly, you know nothing about marketing, because that is not who OUaT is targeted towards. It is only on social media, like Tumblr, that can be considered for the "Twihards". Besides, if it was teenage girls ABC was going for, why allow Colin to keep his hairy chest? I think Esk has a point. A lot of the marketing is through social media, and social media is used much more by people in their teens and 20's, then anyone else. And who likes an idealized "I'd go to hell and back for you" type of romance story? Inexperienced (i.e. young) lovers. So yes, Hook and Emma is for the teenage and 20-something girls. XD  Also, what does body hair have to do with anything? People basically have three stances on body hair on a man: they love it, they hate it, or they don't care either way. But it is just a personal preference. So some teen girls will think it makes Colin sexier, some will think it makes him less sexy, and some won't care. Just like every other age, gender, and sexual orientation will not have one unified answer. We can't clump all teenage girls into one box, at least not with something like body hair on a man. XD Haha, of course. My statement was more like a joke, referring to it because I see it across the web and with 5a's field scene being similar to Twilight. Now, not all teen girls like Twilight and not only them. I, myself, read the books and watched portions of the entire movie saga.

So, I said that as a joke. Hook is an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic and women primarily. Hook and Regina are the more (In my opinion, so don't yell at me like I said it was a fact) marketable ones. Not because of character solely, but that's how they are used. Emma is no question because she's the main character, but I have separate opinions on that. I mean, Robert Carlyle may be one of the best actors on the show and Ginnifer, the highest billed, but none of them are as marketable to whatever ABC seemingly targets.

Anyhow, as Hook is one of the marketable ones, he wouldn't go anywhere and neither would Regina. It's seemingly also why they get larger chunks of story than others. Not that that necessarily affects the show....