Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5521796-20130130052521

I don't get why so many people hate Hook now.

I can see why people feel bad for Rumple and Belle, (so do I), but to just totally hate Hook.... Compared to what we've seen on the the show, Rumple has done worse things to people, I mean, he killed his own wife just because she loved someone else. I get that it was wrong of her to just leave him and her son (she should have gone about that more maturely), but to be killed for it. And just at the end of this last episode, Rumple threatend to kill Charming, Snow, Emma, and even Henry! (did anyone notice he looked directly at Henry when he deliverd that line? Like, "Ya, don't think you're pardoned anymore for just being a kid, I'm extremely pissed off this time".) I get conflicted over Rumple, sometimes I feel bad for him, and other times I'm like, "Eerr why do you have to be so evil?!"

But for Hook, so far this is the only really bad thing we've seen him do, plus when you watch the episode it seems as though he never intended to kill Belle. 1. He would have done it when he had the gun pointed to her on his ship. 2. At the town line, I mean, he's a pirate, I think if he aimed to shoot her, he wouldn't have missed. (and he wasn't that far away) I think he purposley shot her just to make her fall over the line and lose her memories. Yes that's evil, but he still didn't kill her, as to other "villians" in the show who have killed multiple people.

"Villians" cuz I feel like we havn't seen enough of Hook's backstory to specify him as a villian. Yes, he's a pirate, but erm, so is Jack Sparrow, and he's know as the good guy in PotC. And I feel like Hook and Jack are kind of similar, I don't know if Jack would hurt the love of his enemy to get revenge, but then again he did leave his love on a deserted island with nothing but a pistol with one shot in "On Stranger Tides".

I don't know, I just don't see why everyone's so quick to hate Hook. 