I would totally be on board with a rewatch from the beginning over the summer. I mean it’s only been a couple of weeks since we started our rewatch here 😉 but I am always game!
There is so much stuff from the get-go. There are a couple of things even in the Pilot; I was skeptical about whether it was me seeing things through shipper goggles, but I read somewhere that JM was told from the beginning who Henry’s father was so I am not sure how much of the story she had to go on. The scene where she meets Henry includes: him asking her for a drink, her discussing her superpower, her threatening to call the cops on him and him instead convincing her to go home with him… Oh, and dare I mention that the candle on her cupcake is a star shape, so she is literally (in true Disney fashion) wishing upon a star?! I think there are actually more parallels buried in that episode (would catching a cab with a stolen credit card be the 10-year-old version of stealing a car?) but I might be digging a little too deep.
I watched Lost, so I knew these writers dropped hidden clues and easter eggs along the way. But until we sat down to rewatch the story, knowing what we should be looking for, I didn’t realize HOW MUCH stuff they’d buried in there. My bestie and I laugh and laugh about all of the stuff Henry does in S1 that makes him soooo their kid.
Plus there is my favorite line of maybe the whole thing – from Gold in the second episode – I think I need to make it my sig. He’s talking to Regina about seeing Emma with Henry, and says, “…I just seen her strolling down the main street with your boy. Thick as thieves, they looked.” RC draws out the “thick as theives,” emphisizes it just perfectly, and once you know the Emma/Neal story it is utterly BRILLIANT.
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...