Once Upon a Time | Was Emma and Hook's Kiss Scene Realistic and In Character? | meta

[bittersweettwit]

Shortly after I finished watching the season three finale of Once Upon a Time I saw many comments by disgruntled fans about the Captain Swan scene that occurred at the end of There’s No Place Like Home. The fans said things like “Really? She gave into him because he sold a ship?” or made claims that it was wildly out of character. At the time I knew I disagreed, but felt I didn’t have enough textual knowledge to back up my belief and so I didn’t respond. Now however having just completed a rewatch of the first two seasons I would like to offer some observations about both Hook and Emma’s character that make this scene not only believable for me, but in my opinion completely consistent with what we know of both characters particularly Emma.

{The rest of my thinky meta thoughts can be found here}.