Anyone Else Still have Harmless Celebrity Crushes

[Liberalynn]

18. Those are good rules of thumb!

I don't know most of the younger celebrities these days but I happened to see an advertisement for OUAT and Colin was in it and I got intrigued. His character is written differently in this show than the traditional version of Hook. They had him start off as a heroic Naval officer named Killian Jones but then his king lies to Jones's brother about a mission they were on, and the brother dies. Killian is devastated and feels betrayed so he recruits his shipmates and steals the ship to become a pirate. Along the way he loses his hand to Rumplestiltskin disguised as a crocodile, whose wife left him for Killian. Then he ends up in Storybrook, Maine hundreds of years later because of a curse cast on fairy tale characters by Snow White's evil queen. He's fallen in love with Snow and Charming's daughter, Emma, and is fighting to redeem himself so he can be worthy of her love in return, so he's not exactly a good egg yet but he's trying to become one. I think Colin's a good actor with a great voice so it's more than just his look for me. The show can be silly sometimes but the writers are doing a good job exploring what it means to be a hero and what it means to be a villain, and how sometimes the two sides have more in common than we think. They are also exploring whether villains can redeem themselves enough to get their own happy endings. Even the Evil Queen is on a path to redemption.

It's all kind of got me Hooked, excuse the pun.