Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26644233-20150711060847/@comment-25926288-20150715235544

Well, Ruby was treated better than Belle. Poor Belle has little self-respect at times and really is friendless.....Someone mentioned that Belle wasn't seen filming in the potential dream sequence of Emma and someone said "Has she even spoken three lines to her?"

Back on topic, Hook will survive simply because the writers want it so. They saw Neal and instead of really considering how the show would be impacted, killed him to free Hook with Emma. Really, that is the only reason they are together. They might have eventually got together, but they decided to kill off Neal, destroying Rumple's character and pretty much the rest of the subplots.

Hook will survive because he said so numerous times and Emma's love list is all dead otherwise, or august, who expect is a child once more.