Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160402095124/@comment-25926288-20160520165305

It's no shocker to most that I have a slight dislike of Hook and the CS relationship and shipping in general, but I'm always a fan of character development so without further ado:

1. Hook's time spent more with others. Nothing marvel, but I don't need to see Hook get mopey with Emma or waxing love poetically in 95% of his scenes. He's a human being that is capable of more than one motive. I see that there are fans of him and Charming, him with Belle, or any other passerby. Let him loose to interact with the group. It's almost hilarious that Charming is put up as the one that like Hook the least, but I don't recall Hook ever having a solo scene with Snow before. It's like she has some snobbish disdain for him (which wouldn't surprise me).

2. Hook's darkness. Let bygones be bygones between him and Rumple and also, Hook has like a drinking problem........so, fix that, lol. I mean, the flashback shows that he has a drinking problem, yet, every character just ignores that. Wait until he drinks and lashes out in anger aginst Henry, who I don't think he sees as an extension of Emma, but like some kid that hangs around.

Now that Hook's out of the way...

3. Other character interaction scenes. Regina and David, Snow and Henry, etc.

4. Less contrivances. I know some are unavoidable, but at least chekov gun things. I mean, 5b had like the only case of deus ex machina (which is horrendous) and why start now.

5. More old macguffins. It was nice to see they dodn't forget Pandora's box and it has a ton of significance in the Rumple-Belle relationship from season 3, 5b, and in the comics. The Dreamcatchers in 5a were also nice. IF there are new ones, let's not dreamshade them and mention them and their use 3 times per episode.

6. Villain motivation. For Zeus' sake, Hades didn't even have a solid motivation. He wanted it all......well, that's very vague. But more importantly....

7. No more major narrative shifts. I call them that for better or for worse. 5a went from setting up Rumple and Regina as forces to counteract the Dark Swan who's undermining things with a secret plan to Emma's so sad about Hook who is conveniently also a Dark One who didn't know. 5b also had that issue when they went to save Hook, save everyone, condemned as many as they save, went from trapped to free, to defeating Hades when he randomly desired to rule Storybrooke.

Just one nice and neat story that if there are shifts, just shift for the better.