How seemingly easy it was for Regina to adopt Henry- Surely she should’ve had to jump through a few more hoops. The adoption guy hadn’t even heard of Storybrooke, how did he know whether it was real or not?
Having now watched the ep twice, the adoption scenes an extra time, and having thought it through long and hard while typing and re-typing a response to a post from timespacer over in the adoption thread, I’ve ended up concluding that Mr Gold fixed it so that in the system, it looked like Regina’s application had been approved two years ago, and she just happened to be next on the waiting list when Henry’s previous family backed out. If so, then it would explain why this guy wasn’t bothered by not knowing that SB existed, because he’s under the impression that another part of the agency checked all of Regina’s info out and verified it ages ago.
Snow holding Henry and he suddenly stops crying- it just seemed a bit too cliché.
On the surface of it, it sorta comes across as one of those moments that many people interpret as the show being pro bio-family. But I think the actual point was that MM was all chill and calm, unlike Regina who was completely unsure and stressed out. Babies can pick up on other people’s emotions, and will respond instinctively, so he was calm with calm MM, and stressed with stressed Regina.