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#351 in Non-Fiction (5/28/16)
~ Cover by me.
Heya guys! So I thought I'd start us off with a pretty light rant (lol this isn't really light but it's lighter than the others will be). It's a few months old but I still like it.
I wrote this right after the midseason finale for season 5 of Once Upon a Time. I haven't caught up quite yet to the rest
And of course...
SPOILER ALERT FOR SEASON 5A OF Once Upon A Time
#AntiCS #AntiRumbelle #AntiA&E
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Right now, the Internet is blowing up with tons of shocked and furious and heartbroken CS fans because of this new episode. I normally don't get involved in these kinds of drama-arguments, but I felt like putting my two cents in because I am appalled at so many things people are saying and that have happened in the series itself.
1) "It's not Hook, it's the darkness."
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Uh, excuse you? No. Just no. This is ALL Hook. He's not being possessed or controlled. He is making these decisions. Yes, he has the darkness within him, but it's been proven multiple times with all three of the most recent DOs (Dark Ones) that it is possible to overcome the darkness and make better choices if you try hard enough.
What this runs into is culpability and capability for change. To do anything, you have to have motive, means, and opportunity. You have to want to do it, you have to be capable of doing it, and the circumstances have to permit you doing it. For a DO, all that changes is the ease of capability, not the capability itself. Everyone is convinced that what they think they want will make them happy. We normally just don't have the means to get it. However, if there was literally nothing standing in your way and you could have literally anything you wanted, it's human nature to go for it. That's what Hook is doing. He's falling into human nature and giving in to the temptation. That's his own fault.
Now you also have to consider the darkness as an environmental obstacle. He has MORE he has to overcome to make the right choice than a normal person does. That doesn't mean it's okay to make the wrong choice but that does mean you can understand and empathize with the humanity of what's going on inside him. Root for him to overcome that obstacle. It's not "the real Hook is still in there and is just being blocked by the darkness", it's that "this is the real Hook making these decisions." He didn't make them before because he didn't have the means to act upon those buried desires. He may have wanted revenge above all else and Emma right below that, but knew that he could never attain his revenge so buried that desire so he could be happy with Emma instead. We as humans will settle for the best we can get, and are perfectly capable of being happy with it even if it's not at the top of our list. But if something else becomes available, we may very well abandon what we have to go for what we truly believe will make us happy. Now that he has the means, the desire is back at the forefront of his mind, and he is really the same person he was all along.
