Okay,
first off, I apologize for being away for so long. I am swamped with schoolwork
and barely have time for this kind of stuff. The reason I’m doing this blog
post is that I would like to point out a few things about one of the recent
episodes of Once Upon a Time. Yes, I
watch the show and would like to share my analysis of the episode “Birth”. I
must warn you that this will be spoiler-filled, so I advise against reading it
unless you’ve seen the episode or you want to read this anyway.
The
major twist is that Hook is a co-Dark One. I thank TV Tropes for the word
“co-Dark One”. Even though he promised Emma that he’d love her no matter what,
he turned on her once he learned the truth. This is something I call the “Vos
Dynamic”. Yet again, there’ll be spoilers, but this time for the Star Wars book Dark Disciple. In Dark
Disciple, Vos loved Ventress very much until he learned that she killed his
Master. He turned to the dark side and wanted to kill her when she tried to
rescue him from Serenno.
This is
basically what happens with Hook. My reasoning behind the Vos Dynamic is when
someone is betrayed by a person they care for, that victim will turn on them
and hurt them at all costs. Hook certainly didn’t act like this before he knew
he was a Dark One. I must make the argument here that just because a person is
a Dark One doesn’t mean they have to act like it. It’s all a matter of
psychology. When will that sink into the characters’ heads?!
Look,
I’ve seen people with dark abilities before. This doesn’t necessarily make them
evil unless they let it corrupt them. This is where I would like to point out a
principle that’s also from Dark Disciple.
I would like to call it the “Vostress Logic”. Near the end of the novel, Vos
confesses that he turned to the dark side so he and Ventress could have a future
together. This is basically the same reasoning Emma comes to when she claims
she did everything for Killian. If this arc in Once Upon a Time turns out like Dark
Disciple, then it’s not going to end well.
Don’t
think that I’m ending this post on a rotten note. I’m going to leave you the
links for every MLP review I’ve done since my last blog post (and when I say “last
blog post”, I mean since the second half of Season 5 started).
Carousel
Boutique- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/537322/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-my-review-of-canterlot-boutique
Rarity
Investigates- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/540401/the-mystery-mares-collab-review-of-rarity-investigates
Made in
Manehattan- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/543390/help-fashion-police-my-review-of-made-in-manehattan
Brotherhooves
Social- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/546234/one-pair-on-earth-and-another-above-my-review-of-brotherhooves-social
Crusaders
of the Lost Mark- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/549801/day-of-discovery-my-review-of-crusaders-of-the-lost-mark
The One
Where Pinkie Pie Knows- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/552176/look-out-for-shhh-my-review-of-the-one-where-pinkie-pie-knows
Hearthbreakers
and Scare–Master- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/558541/the-nightmare-before-hearths-warming-my-review-of-scare-master-and-hearthbreakers
What
About Discord?- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/560778/stuck-like-glue-my-review-of-what-about-discord
The
Hooffields and McColts- https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/563401/hillpony-heck-my-review-of-the-hooffields-and-mccolts
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