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DarlingDavies wrote:

And maybe seeing Hook all dreamy-prince-ified like this is him in his life as a result of the time-travel curse. Or it could just to be referring, to the rest of Hook's missing year.

We already know, that Hook failed to recapture his glory days. Perhaps, after pirating failed, he changed his career? Though, why he would choose politics, is beyond me.