Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24271102-20150612100132/@comment-26033121-20160210194631

Hook doesn't seem like he knows that he is a bad person. If he did he wouldn't have egotistically plead with Emma to "let me die a hero." That whole statement is a complete subversion of Rumple and Regina saying "Ah, but I'm a villain, and villains don't get happy endings," and Regina saying "Let me die as Regina" before they sacrificed/tried to sacrifice themselves for family and loved ones. The entire idea of good and evil being emotionally complex, layered, undefinable, subjective, etc., has been one-dimensionalized and ruined with characters like Hook.