Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140606234443/@comment-24898439-20140609092108

ChocolatEyes613 wrote:

You mean like Robert Carlyle, and the whole Rumbelle arc?

''It is not Colin O'Donoghue's fault, that he is handsome. It is not even like he is the only attractive man, on the show.... say "hello", to Josh Dallas. Besides, according to J.M. Barrie, Captain Hook was the handsomest man one had ever seen. ''

''You also fail to comprehend, that Hook is Emma's closest friend. Which is why, he is able to call her out on her insecurities. It is not like Emma is a teenage girl. She is an adult woman, capable of making her own decisions. Since she is an adult, it is about time she moved on from the past and live a healthy life. Emma has no right to push away the people who care about her, just because she was abandoned in her youth. All Hook was doing was proving, that she was worth caring about.... that she was worthy of being loved. ''

1) Robert Carlyle is not unattractive. However, your suggestion that he is unattractive makes my point for me. The show consistently shows Rumbple as the one being pursued by the ladies, which again begs the question of how we were to feel about Hook's behavior if he were to look like him.

2) I do not "fail to comprehend" the relationsihp between Hook and Emma. However, it would appear that you repeatedly fail to comprehend my points. There are multiple critical lenses one might use to approach understanding a "text" (and I use text here to mean any media item). My point is that through the lens of the structure of the narrative arc, and not through a strictly character based lens, Hook's actions are problematic.

3) Actually, Emma has EVERY right to push away the people who care about her. Whether we agree with her choices or not, whether we think that pushing people away is healthy or not, does not negate her right to make the choice to interact with her family or not and when the right time to move on is and her readiness to do so. Disagreeing with another's decisions does not give us the right to remove their agency.

4) Fnally, why would Emma need proof that she was worthy of being loved, per se? She already had that proof in spades. Her story arc is already pure fantasy wish fulfilmment, in that she was a child that was given up for the noblest of reasons (i.e. for her own sake and to save an entire group of people, rather than a more mundane one like the reason she gave up Henry). And she has the unconditional love of her parents, which she herself knows, the love of her son (despite having given him up), and she knew that Baelfire truly loved her.