Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171014032523/@comment-27060727-20171014064239

DeviousPeep wrote:

Anyways, I think the best way to have handled Emma's departure while keeping Hook on the show would've been to just have Emma be back in Storybrooke with Hook working to get back to her. I think that would've been simple enough and a better way of keeping viewers invested in the hopes Hook would eventually find his way back to her. Instead they get their ending handed to them and we get to watch Colin O'Donoghue run around another 20 episodes playing a plot contrivance. I seriously don't understand why they didn't just go with this. Literally the simplest option. The curse will be broken, everyone will remember, he'll go home. They don't even have to show Emma again. I don't think those fans would actually be worried that they won't end up happy. And now on top of Snow, Charming, Belle, and Emma fans no longer being invested, they're opening the door for the Hook fans to leave as well, even though Colin is still on the show. There's no good reason to have the real Regina and Rumple, but come up with a weird cop-out to make it a different Hook. Heck, isn't the split Evil Queen technically Regina too? Why didn't she show up in the New EF? A weird way to handle things all around.