Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20141224185559/@comment-24674051-20150311133618

We've barely seen Hook's Pirating days. When he first became a pirate, he was not so much 'evil' as 'Rebel'. I think we may see a touch of the darker times in his first interactions with Rumple. But the Hook that was in Neverland did not come across as all that Evil, just hyper focused on Revenge. Of course, they did not explore his relationship with Pan, so there might have been more there.

But I am betting that most of his Pirateing, where he would be turly dark, occurred somewhere between when he became a pirate and when he left for Neverland. Just my opinion.