Just a few more hours...
One major thing jumped out to me right away, now that I know Hook is a dark one while watching. (Minor detail: she saved him from Merlin not only because she loved him but to stop him from finding out.)
Major realization:
When Hook & Emma confront each other in the woods, their dialogue takes on a whole new meaning, as does Emma’s pained look as she speaks to Hook, clearly thinking of what she did in Camelot to him.
Emma, “It doesn’t matter I’m the Dark One.”
Just the way she says it, it seems as though she is trying to see his reaction to her as the DO. How does he feel about it? Does he still love her even for what she is?
Hook, “You’re more than the dark one, you’re still you.”
Hook’s response is perfect, I feel foreshadowing the moment when he moves past his vengeance due to the DO powers surging through him and accepting what Emma did.
He will realize that the darkness doesn’t have to control him, that Emma didn’t do this out of anything but love and that he can overcome it to be the hero he has been working to become since he met her.
The look on her face when he says that shows a tiny glimpse of hope, hope that he will feel that same way if she told him what he was, hope that this won’t ruin the happy ending she is trying to hard to get to.
Check it out for yourself and watch Emma’s face especially (feel free to skip past sniveling Arthur):
"I’ll be making my way back to you babe.”
The journey of a lifetime, a journey that has brought much heartache, much pain, but has opened so many doors for both of them.
CaptainSwan is coming home, well after the darkness is gone and Killian is rescued from the Underworld, but home is #endgoal and we will get there CS shippers!
Henry needs to rename his current mission from “OperationLightSwan” to “OperationLightCaptainSwan”
As Snow would say, “Have hope and believe in their happy ending.”