the emma scene just came off as her being frustrated to me. so she snapped at henry to basically stay outta the way?
I know thatâs probably what it wasâemotionally stunted Emma coming to the end of her wits, but the thing is: Henry didnât deserve that. It was abuse of authority and power, and it hurt to watch. Emmaâs entitled to having a melt-down, but not over Henryâs backâHenry who has done nothing but sit around on his ass, listening to his mom lie to him. He politely confronted her with him knowing something what up, and she kept lying to him. Now, heâs making a statement, saying he has the right to know a truth that he knows impacts him as wellâand Emma needs to get the fuck over herself. She has memories of herself supporting him for his entire life, she has taken care of him for a year. She loves this boy, and she would do anything for himâweâve seen in memory-less Emma that she was able to put Henry first; i cut her slack on her regression to egocentric!Emma as long as she didnât hurt Henryâbut here she hurt Henry, and thatâs not okay. And yes, Iâm overreacting because it hits close to home, but still. this crap wasnât okay when Regina pulled it, and it certainly isnât now Emma is pulling it. Ohâand if this is supposed to be a parallel or a way to drive Henry into Reginaâs arms (because he wouldnât go there by himself?) Iâm going to hurt someone.
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When I fist saw this scene I thought Emma was trying to give him a hard time, like Regina did, so the book wd show up. When I found out it wasnât I got confused too.
That would still have been a very shitty reason to me, to be honest; the book already had quite enough reason to show up. Also: parallel, and this is one parallel we donât need, to be honest.
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I feel that in Emma still havenât fully come to terms with all this magic and flying monkeys thing. She misses their life in New York, when everything was plain and simple. But like Snow said to Emma later at the scene in the apartment, â[New York] wasnât homeâ.
To me, Emma is being a little selfish here. She doesnât want that kind of complicated-full-of-magic-and-curses life for Henry, and maybe she has the right to feel this way. But she still has to remember that Henry has other family too: Regina, the Charmings etc. That is what she realised in the talk she had with Snow in the apartment scene and that was what made Emma fully turn around and parallel Henry in S1: encouraging him to believe.
Because as much as Emma loves the life in New York for the both of them, she loves Henry most and apart from his memories, family is what Henry needs.
Exactly! I get that Emma doesnât want to lose him, and she doesnât want to give up what she had, but part of being a parent is that you let go of the dreams you canât maintain. You canât get your child into dangerâand thatâs what Emmaâs behaviour has boiled down to. It was bad enough that her sheltering caused heartache for everyone and put Henry in harmâs way, but if the writers had allowed Zelena to be a little smarter, Henry would be dead by now. Also: going so far as to project your fears and anger onto your child and making them out to be the bad guy (like Regina did, and no, Iâm never forgetting that either) is not okay. Ever.