It’s like they’re just enjoying this long awaited moment and they don’t want to rush it. Probably because they have both spent way too many years having rushed and meaningless sex and they know how none of that can even be compared to this. So now they’re savoring each other, enjoying every second of it and what’s about to happen. It’s not sex, it’s making love. And it just makes me so emotional because neither of them have ever made love before in their lives, not like this. Not with their True Love. It’s just…Captain Swan. That’s all.
I really love how they use the storybook prop to illustrate Emma’s journey throughout the CS Movie and Killian’s role in helping her along it.
Henry gives it to Hook so that he can remind her of where she comes from, remind her of the importance of home and family. Which is his function throughout the entire thing. Even helping her become apart of the book by the end.
Emma tosses it aside on the bench because at that point it’s still not important to her, she hasn’t accepted it yet. She’s not apart of it.
Hook picks it up, makes sure it’s safe and takes off after her.
Hook is the keeper of the book for their entire journey until the end. He is the one who takes it out and hands it to her in Rumple’s castle, he is the one who keeps it (the mission) safe.
After Emma comes to grip with her desire to call Storybrooke home, after she accepts her family, SHE is the one who gets the book out of his satchel (casual intimmmaaccy) and she is the one who is looking through it, showing it to her parents in the diner at the end.
Killian’s interactions with the storybook in general are actually really interesting to me. I’d have to verify but it seems like he picks it up and uses it as much as Emma and Henry, and he uses it for the same purpose as Henry, to convince Emma this is where she belongs, this is where her purpose is.
The book itself was even used as a visual cue FOR HIM in the Season 4 finale.
I dunno it’s something I will definitely start to pay attention to.
And in what should have been the Season 5 finale (Last Rites) he and Emma communicate through the storybook and he adds pages to it … in Firebird it seemed like Henry left it there for him …
Interesting …
LOL yes, definitely should have been the finale. And EXACTLY.
I think the book is obviously connected to everyone by its very nature,its a central thing for show, especially in S4 when there is so much focus on it, but Killian seems to have a Henry-esque connection to it despite us having no confirmation he actually appears in it beyond his Prince Charles adventure.
He kind of takes the lead on finding it in the Underworld initially, agreeing with Emma that its important, he is looking through it when he and Charming have their bro-tastic moment, etc.
He just seems to handle it a lot and other than Henry and Emma, has the most powerful/significant connection to it.
Regina wanted to change it. August did change it to an extent. Snow found it (twice) but beyond that her and Charming have very little interaction with it. I’m not even sure if Rumple has ever even touched it? (Emma puts it in front of him in the CS movie but I think she turns the pages).
I dunno. It’s just a thing I noticed, he handles it a lot and has a lot of significant moments with it.
I do think that Snow has a pretty significant connection with it … at least early on in the show. She is the one that gave it to Henry in the first place and when she read from it it woke up Charming. And she was the one that commented on Emma being in it. It feels a little symbolic because she “created” the story in a way.
Regina’s interaction with it was always negative. She clutched it angrily back in Season 1 … in Season 4 she was “researching” but in truth she was trying to find a way to alter her story to get a happy ending that she hadn’t earned.
I don’t recall another interaction that Rumple had other than the S3 finale … but when he did touch it he first mocked the title and then found the pages empty so that’s actually kind of interesting …
But yeah, Killian seems to touch it a lot as soon as his relationship with Emma becomes more official …
I have thought about starting a series of posts to track the storybook’s appearances so maybe this is just the motivation I need because now I really want to do it!
I forgot all about that Snow reading to Charming to wake him up.
I admit I just rewatched S1 for the first time in years this hiatus so my recall of it is shaky at best where as I’ve seen 2.04 and beyond a million times.
And yes, Regina and Rumple seem to both have either no, or negative interactions with it. Rumple even participates in the writing of its antithesis.
Whereas the book (and of course his choices/actions/him being the embodiment of hope) is partially responsible for Killian regaining his life.
I would be very interested to read that meta if you actually do it!!!
We’ve kind of been used to this kind of thing with Emma and Killian, but what the writers did before with them was establish trust between them. When Emma didn’t remember Killian, she still drank the potion he gave her because even though she didn’t know him, she felt she could trust him. And during the book AU, it was Killian’s turn to trust what Emma was telling him about them being from another world. Killian could have discounted everything Emma said from the word go as the ravings of a woman that had been locked up for too long, alone for too long. But he didn’t. Instead, he trusted her and sacrificed himself for her.
But season 5 really did something different.
They had them transcend time, space, and even death.
It was one thing for Emma and Killian to have a sense of each other while they are both in the same place. Killian knows Emma is there, and Emma feels Killian’s presence. They are connected, we’ve always known that.
But we find out just how deep that connection between them runs after Emma leaves the UW.
Before Killian and Emma’s love story used Snow and Charming’s story as the blue print. That blue print has been tossed though, and Emma and Killian are doing their very own thing, like meeting each other several times under different circumstances, becoming Dark Ones, being tested by the Gods, dying and that makes their story extremely unique.
And since season 6 is starting in 2 weeks, I cannot wait to see what more we get with those 2.
I’ve been wondering about the Savior Mythology, Emma’s birth just as the curse to end all curses was cast, Killian’s long life and his vow to destroy the Dark One, season 2, when he came really close, season 5 when he and Emma teamed up and almost succeeded, and their willingness to both sacrifice for the greater good, how Killian was given his life back and came back in a nice display of light magic.
“When I told you I loved you back in Storybrooke, it was because I thought I was never going to see you again.” – the start of the focus on the fact that she can’t say ‘I love you’ in a quiet moment which they had her resolve in the finale.
“And the minute you take away the darkness, that future begins”
And the Promethean Flame lit up immediately which shows that she was telling the truth since that was the entire problem they were trying to fix.
It was only intense because Regina was forcing Emma with the dagger against her will because she’s a horrible person. The flame lit up after Hook talked to her with love and kindness.
I’m guessing whoever wrote this confession wanted it to be something else?
It’s also not just about Emma’s fear of settling down. It’s a fear of what the future holds, it’s a fear of the other shoe dropping, and it’s a fear of letting herself believe she can actually have a happy future because she’d had such a horrible past. Any time Emma has been in a position to believe that something good is finally happening, it gets ripped from her.
She has a family … until she’s three and they return her to the system.
She has a friend … until the friend betrays her.
She has a woman who wants to adopt her and be her family … until the woman holds her in front of a moving car.
She has a boyfriend who promises her home and family … until he doesn’t show up and she ends up in prison.
Her son finds her … and she ends up locked in a battle with a literal fairy tale villain (even if she doesn’t believe so yet).
She finds her family … and then she loses her memory of them.
So now she has home and her family and a guy she loves, and she’s petrified that if she lets herself believe that this is it, this is her happy ending, it’s going to be ripped from her like everything else has.
And you know what? It does. She stops fearing what the future holds … and Killian dies. That’s why Emma was afraid to let herself believe that everything is going to be fine from here on out. (And that’s why the Underworld story was so important in terms of the her development and the development between her and Killian. Because the little girl who lost everything put her foot down and said, “No, you can’t take this from me this time.”)
Making a Case for the Nursery. Why it’s about the Future and not the Past.
This is going to be a baby speculation/meta, and why the scenes in the Underworld had absolutely nothing to do with the past, or Emma mourning her lost childhood, and everything to do with the future instead.
I know some people get kinda twitchy when baby is mentioned which I totally get. Babies are boring as hell. If it’s not your cup of tea, my suggestion is to skip over this altogether.
This is going to touch upon episodes 2×03, 3×06, 5×08, 5×13, 5×14 and 5×15.
As usual, perfect meta. I just wanted to add that Killian looking at that nursery was so deliberate and important the writers actually included it in the script (I remember freaking out when Adam shared it as a script tease for the ep):
I agree with you that this is something they will most likely revisit or they were planting the seeds there, we’ll need to have our eyes peeled this season for more foreshadowing on CS+baby(ies)
Thanks for the addition, I thought I had it. That script is the only reason I noticed Killian doing that, and even then, at first glance, I didn’t even see it, it was a nice anonymous person who pointed it out to me.
I can also add that Killian’s first baby talk ever happened in 5×03, with Robin. He went to ask Robin for his help breaking into Emma’s house, and ended up looking at an ultrasound of a baby instead. That scene didn’t have to go that way at all. They talked about Robin’s mixed feelings.
That scene could have very easily been something that happened between David and Robin, because David is a father, he has a daughter who is nearly his age that he never got to raise, and a baby that he is now raising. That can give someone a lot of mixed feelings.
My favorite thing is Emma and Killian’s different style for cheering each other up or if something is wrong with the other. We have Emma who at first puts little pirate jokes out or has talked about his handsomeness. After she just saved his life in 5.14, she joked of being “impossible”. Even back in s3 when something unknown was wrong with him, she decided to be playful and impress with her magic. To me, it feels like she goes to humor at first. Then we have Killian who is more than likely going to act serious. Give some advice or relate it to him. He’ll sometimes take whatever the problem is head on especially if it’s about her health.
I like when we get to see a switch between them. Killian is usually the playful one who makes jokes and Emma is usually the serious one (in my opinion). So it’s nice to see them use the other’s personality to cheer the other up or to get the other talking about a problem,.
Making a Case for the Nursery. Why it’s about the Future and not the Past.
This is going to be a baby speculation/meta, and why the scenes in the Underworld had absolutely nothing to do with the past, or Emma mourning her lost childhood, and everything to do with the future instead.
I know some people get kinda twitchy when baby is mentioned which I totally get. Babies are boring as hell. If it’s not your cup of tea, my suggestion is to skip over this altogether.
This is going to touch upon episodes 2×03, 3×06, 5×08, 5×13, 5×14 and 5×15.
As usual, perfect meta. I just wanted to add that Killian looking at that nursery was so deliberate and important the writers actually included it in the script (I remember freaking out when Adam shared it as a script tease for the ep):
I agree with you that this is something they will most likely revisit or they were planting the seeds there, we’ll need to have our eyes peeled this season for more foreshadowing on CS+baby(ies)
My opinion (unpopular or not): I don’t think the things Killian said to Emma while he was the Dark One in 5a were any worse than the things Emma said to Killian by choice and not as a dark anything in season 3b at the height of all the Zelena crap. I don’t care if Emma’s walls “were a mile high” in 3b (the most prevalent fandom excuse for how she was acting at the time, and frankly, not nearly a good enough reason, IMO), she was pretty mean to Killian several times. And if people are going to get all up in arms about what shit DO!Killian said to Emma (especially after she made him a DO in the first place), they had better have been at least disgruntled on his behalf when she was being shitty to him in 3b (particularly around the time baby Snowing was being born). Sadly, I rarely see that. Either they both get a free pass for the crappy things that came out of their mouths or they both get condemned. IMO, they are square now: Killian never called her out on what she said to him, and she never called him out for what he said either. May I never see someone say that Killian was horrible to Emma while he was a DO again. Seriously.
I hope you like my title because it will make sense in a minute
Remember how Killian taunts Emma, saying that she is like the magic bean, dried up, wasted potential, dead on the inside?
Yeah. That hurt. As an Ugly Duckling and a CSer.
But wait! Killian claims that both the magic bean and Emma no longer have use, aren’t magical anymore. And what does Killian do with that magic bean next?
That’s right! He uses the Lake’s regenerative powers to bring the bean back to life, to give it back its magic. Does that sound familiar?
It really should, because in 3×23 Killian pretty much talks the magic back into her. As evidenced by the glowing wand
While calling Emma all those mean names wasn’t very nice and untrue, he does have a point where Emma wasn’t living up to her potential, and was sealing herself off from any emotional connection excluding Henry, not taking any emotional risks and not letting herself be happy. Yeah, that’s called being dead inside.
In both cases, Killian was able to bring magic back to a powerful object, and a very powerful spellcaster. In essence, Emma is Killian’s magic True love bean
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