Technically that is wrong. The Witch is much older than Rapunzel, as we recall Wish Hook is very old when we first meet him. His reason to screw over Rapunzel has to do with the fact that she has something he wants, cause he goes to her tower clearly to find this dark and magical power to get his revenge. They have a fling, and he chooses revenge over her. Which makes her angry and she gets prego. She becomes mother gothel bc of what he did to her....
She also keeps her daughter locked up because of what Wish Hook did to her she believes all people are bad and doesn’t want Alice to go through that. Wish Hook finds out he has a kid and goes to see her and sneaks in all the time. One time Rapunzel/The Witch catches him and poisons his heart and curses it cause of what he did to her. It’s a bad relationship because of what Hook does and what Rapunzel does in retaliation, toxic and causing pain to him and his daughter.
And your statement of how it’s a rehash? So what this whole season is loaded with rehashes what’s one more to add to the bucket list of rehashes this season? It makes sense, The Witch has very similar hair style to Rapunzel, age wise it matches, Wish Hook did not fall in love with anyone else but Milah so if he had a fling with Rapunzel he very likely did not choose her over his revenge and she grew angry and became The Witch, it all fits TBH. This is Wish Hook he thinks he’s hot shit.
The reason they have a toxic and bad relationship is cause she curses his heart and poisons him to never see his daughter. She’s the one causing the pain between him and her daughter and it’s because of what he did to her that she’s like this. That is the epitome of a toxic relationship. And he clearly does not show any kind of love for the mother of his child whatsoever he said as such to Real Hook, he didn’t know a Captain Hook could find love.
I’m assuming this is in response to this.
And TECHNICALLY, this is ALL speculation and discussion; no one will be right or wrong until after the episode airs (and it’s far more likely we’ll all be wrong, as usual). It’s not a contest, though.
I will admit, now that you explained it in full, I understand your theory better and think it has more of a chance of playing out. (I definitely have “Stay With Me” from Into the Woods stuck in my head now.) And you bring up a very good point with the Witch’s hairstyle (although I might counter that with the fact that everyone seems to be wearing braids this season; perhaps that’s JMo’s legacy <3).
I still think there’s a casting issue with this, though. You bring up Wish Hook’s age—based on the established story, he should be 28 years older than Killian Prime. So we could extrapolate that to be an ~30-year age difference between Rapunzel, as we saw her in pics/promo (which appear to be a flashback), and the Witch. I really think if they were going to do that, they’d have found actresses with a wider age gap than 9 years; case in point: Rose McGowan (young Cora) is 25 years younger than Barbara Hershey (Cora). And if we’re to assume she wouldn’t age due to magic, then the same applies: why have a different actress?
This season definitely has callbacks and similar scenarios to situations from the past, but they’ve managed to tweak them all to be unique, like we saw in 7x06 with Drizella versus Regina. So I don’t think they’d outright repeat something from an earlier season; Killian would have to have a reason to betray Rapunzel. I’m not gonna try to argue that he won’t, but there has to be something to differentiate this situation from the one with Ursula.
I’m with you on the Witch being the big bad, though obviously we don’t know why yet.Spurned romantic love is a reason for villainy we haven’t seen yet on the show; I’m not writing it off, but it usually goes much deeper than that. So either Killian does something that really damages Rapunzel, in your scenario, or…I don’t know. I don’t really have a counter to it other than that.
I definitely agree that this Witch is the same one who has his daughter and poisons his heart; there’s no reason to introduce another, unless they make it Zelena for some TBD reason. And to further play Devil’s advocate, it’s not confirmed that Rapunzel is the mother, or that Killian is the biological father. Just sayin’.
So PSA: if you don’t want me to critique your spec, cover your bases when you send it. You might have something there; we just don’t know yet.
Also, PSA, this is likely the last anon like this I’ll be replying to. My supply of troll feed is just about empty. Take care, nonnie.