[ SECRET POST #2707 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2707 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: What Big Deals (or wanks) have been going on in fandom spaces outside this community recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking as someone who either doesn't ship Emma with anyone--as in, I was and would be more than happy with single Emma--or multiships her with a big long list of people: Emma/Hook is the only NOTP I've ever had in twenty years of fandom involvement, because Hook was introduced as a sexist bully and never shown to regret that behavior.

I think I get what the writers are trying to do with the ship: they've compared Emma and Hook to Leia and Han recently. But for me the build-up just wasn't there. Hook went from helping to save Henry in Bae and Milah's memory to assuage old guilt to infatuated with Emma, who he'd just been trying to kill, in one day. All his comments and behavior towards women in general, not just Emma, in season 2 made my skin crawl. The writing in season 3 points at that being the mask of a pirate persona for Killian Jones, puppy-dog eyed bad boy, but Colin Odonoghue sold Captain Hook, remorseless sociopath, way too well for me to see it as anything other than an act.

As for what about his actions promotes rape culture, mostly his assurance that he deserved Emma and was going to win her, his hinting that Emma should kiss him as a reward for saving Charming, his stalking her, and everything he'd done in season 2 and never apologized for, up to and including telling Rumpelstiltskin he and his men were going to use Milah as a sex toy, something Emma is still completely ignorant of. I can't believe Emma would stay with Hook if she found out about that, or Hook selling Bae to Pan. But then, I couldn't have imagined season 1 or 2 Emma wanting a man who called her "dried up, dead, and useless" before he locked her and her mother and allies in an impervious cell to die of slow starvation, either.

OUAT used to be ridiculous but enjoyable to me, but between the lack of consistent characterization and overabundance of Hook, I'm not going to watch season 4. I can't actually watch scenes Hook's in because I'm so strongly reminded of bullying creepy sleazebags I've known and loathed. I thought the Regina and Rumpelstiltskin apologists were bad, but at least the writers occasionally remind us they're villains because they're bad people. Hook has the writers woobifying him as much or more than his fandom does, and they don't need encouragement.