This incarnation of James Hook is insane.
Which explains why he Took a Level in Dumbass to the point where he doesn't know what a basketball is. Hey, he was forced to admit he was a codfish.- He did get dumber, okay, but his not knowing what a basketball is may not really be evidence of that. Hook, as implied in the original movie, was once a traditional pirate from the 17th or 18th century, but he met Peter Pan and stayed in Neverland ever since, trying to get revenge. When it comes to the real world, he's basically a Fish out of Temporal Water, who is unlikely to know what (to him) "modern" inventions like a motorcar or a basketball are.
Hook steals from Jake's treasure chest after every episode.
Considering they leave their chest outside, and the good pirates get treasure every day. After they finish their end-of-the-episode song, Hook and his pirates steal some of their treasure. It's possible they even put fake treasure or filler underneath some of the leftover treasure just so the kids won't notice and stop burying their treasure. This is also why Hook can afford to repair his ship whenever it's damaged.- It is also why after all those episodes in which they keep adding new golden coins, the chest's still not full.
- In Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates, the Team Treasure Chest is buried in a vault under the sand and can only be raised by an elaborate Rube Goldberg Device that presumably only they know how to operate. Perhaps their treasure really was being stolen and they got tired of it?
- Also, the earlier episode "Treasure Chest Switcheroo" shows that Hook and his minions can swipe the chest, but aren't clever enough to figure out how to open it.
Dread is a jinn.
It makes perfect sense considering that is what an "evil genie" is basically.- …you do realise that "genie" is just the anglicized version of the word "jinn", not the name of a different creature?
Dread's also gonna be coming back in a later episode.
Why else would it be so obviously hinted at at the last second of the episode? (Also, please?) The show takes place in the Second Age of Fairy Tales.
Just as in the book, Neverland is Lighter and Softer because Peter isn't there.
In Barrie's original book, it's directly stated that Peter has some sort of tie to Neverland which means that whenever he leaves the island no big adventures ever happen there. Everything is peaceful, and if the Lost Boys and the pirates chance to meet they don't even bother to fight. When Peter returns, though, the island wakes up and becomes much more more adventurous and dangerous, because Peter can't stand lethargy and wants danger and excitement. So we're simply seeing a similar thing here; when Peter's not there nobody's taking anything very seriously and even Hook is incapable of rousing up his old bloodthirstiness and is just passing the time until Peter returns and he can feel like a true villain again. This is why Hook and crew immediately become more competent and threatening whenever Peter guest stars; it's not just that Hook doesn't bother to bring his A-game against Jake, whom he doesn't take seriously, it's that he's literally incapable of bringing his A-game to anything in Neverland as long as Peter isn't there. Peter in this incarnation has tanner skin than usual on purpose.
Compare him to the other white-coded characters such as Cubby
◊ or Captain Hook
◊. By all accounts, his skin should be a soft pink like theirs, but instead it's darker and more gold-toned, much closer to Jake's complexion. This is because his travels beyond the Never Sea have given him a tan, not too dissimilar to someone coming back from vacation (and, well, the whole show is basically him going on a prolonged vacation while Jake and his crew handle Hook for him). And because of all the time he's spent living in Neverland, he has adapted to its usual tropical island climate, hence why he tans rather than getting sunburnt. It's even likely he could have some Tan Lines that are strategically hidden by his clothing. The entire show is a metaphor for the Chinese Communist Party.
The gold dubloons are actually social credit points, Jake and co. are Chinese citizens who "betrayed" China to go to America, and Hook and his gang are actually the Chinese Goverment trying to capture and execute them. You come up with the rest yourselves.- Season 4 has the traitors finally escape China. The new villains introduced here are bounty hunters hired by the CCP to kill Jake and the other traitors.
- Peter Pan is the stand-in for Joe Biden.
