Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32042217-20170518162408/@comment-31564770-20170524131904

The wounded war vet could be cool! I thought my ideas for cursed Hook were probably the weakest of my set, because they were kinda similar to pirate Hook despite my efforts to differentiate. Now I definitely think there's something better! I love the idea of him not knowing how to manage his missing hand. Also, has anyone else thought of this? Once now takes place approximately 10 years in the future. I wonder if the writers will acknowledge that, given that they've always had older tech on the show- computers and cameras in the sheriff's station, anyone? Plus the older cars give the impression of being somewhat in the past. So will they throw a little futurism in there, maybe give Hook a slightly more advanced prosthetic hand or something? Somehow I doubt it. I expect they'll treat it as present day, and visually nothing will change. I won't be too disappointed if they leave it, i can't really see sci-fi on Once on any level. Still, if the passage of time is to be acknowledged, something should change. Basically the point of all that is if as some of us have suggested Hook is a scientist or a professor, maybe he'll be researching some semi-futuristic tech.

Anyways, here's an idea for cursed Hook: modifying my earlier idea of him being the administrator for the docks but never going on the sea because of seasickness, what if that's where he ended up after a boating accident where he ended up having his hand amputated because it was crushed under some falling equipment in a storm. So Hook used to love the sea, but now he's stuck working at the dock offices because he gets a panic attack even going near a boat. That's why he's super grumpy sitting in the dock offices and he sends cursed Smee to go talk to the people who parked their boat wrong or whatever because he can't go on the docks himself or he'll freak out. It's a paradox of he really wants to go back to the sea, but now he's super scared of it, so he took a job as close to the sea as possible but now he can't quit because there aren't really any other jobs for him and he hates his job becausr he has to constantly stare at the sea but never go there, so he's really bitter. What do we think?