Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-16953943-20140727024837/@comment-16953943-20140727045240

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Shadows Vale wrote: WinterWoodsGal wrote:

Shadows Vale wrote: A lot of people seem to be excited at the idea of Emma and Hook being offically together in Season 4. Does anyone else feel as though they won't last the entire season?

Emma didn't come to him until she was in an emotionally vulnerable state of mind. She thought she had watched her mother die, and thought she was going to die as well. Hook knew that and took advantage of the situation. He told her he traded his ship for her, knowing that in her emotional state, she'd cave. And she fell for it. I don't believe he traded his ship for her at all, and I wouldn't be surprised if we find that out this season.

I think the writers have even hinted that they are not each other's "true loves". True loves kiss fixes curses on this show, yet the curse that caused Emma not to remember Storybrooke/Enchanted Forest was not fixed by Hook kissing Emma. Instead, he had to rely on the potion he was given to restore her memories.

I personally don't think Emma really needs a true love right now anyway. She needs time to embrace her family first before embracing romance. The kiss hook gave Emma didn't work for the same reason Charming's kiss didn't work when snow had the forgetting potion. And why is that? Emma's memory loss was the result of a curse, not a potion. Curses are broken with true love's kiss, as has been shown several times. Potions don't factor into that. Memory loss is memory loss.... it does not matter how it came about. What happened in New York, is the same thing thing that happened with Snowing ad Rumbelle. Snow White drank a potion, and Prince Charming kiss could not work. Belle fell over the townline, and Mr. Gold's kiss did not work either.

Emma had been slowly developing romantic feelings for Hook, since the moment she met him. The same goes for Hook, but he just realized it sooner. The "Missing Year" was a self-contained arc, and it will probably never be revisited. Neal sent the message and memory potion, because he Hook would succeed. Hook traded the Jolly Roger, to reunite Emma with her family. He did not take advange of her, and never would. All he did, was comfort and support her. There is nothing wrong, with what Hook did.... you are just grasping for straws. That statment bothered me more than anything else you posted. I can understand if you see Hook's actions from a different POV. That's fine.

However, saying that a potion, a curse, and crossing the town line all amount to the same simply because they caused memory loss is ludacris. The way the memory loss effect comes about is just as important as the memory loss itself. Not all magic is the same, and not all magic can be broken the same way, even when the effects are similar. What I do know, is that so far, every curse has been broken with some sort of true love's kiss. It seems reasonable to think that if the other curses, which caused memory loss, were broken that way, then why not this one? Same type of magic + same effect = same way to break it.

Potion =/= Curse =/= Crossing Town Line