@TheLadyBelle wrote:
I know there are a lot of people who hate Henry for not recognising Regina’s love for him. They are annoyed that he goes on hating her and calling an evil queen. Apparently they missed that she’s not an ideal mother by any means. She acts out of spite time and time again and is doing so out of her own interests, not Henry’s.
Her love of him seems like ownership. It all fits the symptoms that Maleficent told her about. She’s really trying to fill her life with things that might make her happy, but it doesn’t.
Yes, I hate that too. While I have to admit that during the first few episodes, I did find Henry annoying; although, I think it was just the writing for him because now he’s really grown and brings on a lot of whimsicalness that I think this show definitely needs more of at times, I never once disliked him because I thought he was wrong in his feelings for Regina.
They always talk about how she raised him since birth using that speech she gave Emma about how she changed his diapers and etc., but I always wonder how they miss all the other things that she did out of spite. She destroyed his favorite place to go, manipulated his birth mom into saying his ideas were crazy in front of him, barely pays attention to where he’s at most of the time despite knowing that he does get into dangerous situations, and of course constantly tries to hurt the people that he loves/cares about the most.
I also didn’t feel as much sympathy for her as it seemed a lot of viewers did after her speech to Henry in “A Land Without Magic” about how she really does love him, because I think once again it was more about her needs rather than Henry. Now if she at least had a little awareness that her it was her actions all along that turned him against her and not other people trying to turn him against her, I would have felt more sympathetic.