Reply To: TVLine Feb 16: Guest Stars For End of 6/Beginning of 7

[Slurpeez]

I think this is could be a time jump, and these new “characters” are adult Henry and his daughter. That sounds a lot like a reboot to me.

I agree that this casting call sounds like it’s for adult Henry and his own daughter, rather than for adult Henry and a hypothetical half-sister. Aside from Zelena and Regina, sibling relationships aren’t as central as the parent-child relationships on this show. A&E love their parallels, and making a seventh season be about a parent and a child parallels seasons one and two quite well. Henry taking up the mantel of Emma and his daughter being the child he falls in love with would be a strong parallel to Emma and Henry in the first season, which fans widely agree was the strongest season of the entire show. The casting call said the girl comes from a broken home, which sounds very similar to how Henry grew up. Even though Henry has always had Regina, he didn’t have either of his birth parents, and he never really got to know his father that well. Assuming Violet and Henry had a child when they were young and then split up, it sounds like Henry might have potentially missed out on years with his daughter. Thematically, Henry discovering he had a daughter or only just getting to spend time with her after a decade would parallel several family themes presented like Emma having to make up for lost time with Henry.

I’m not really sure how I feel about this potential reboot. Part of me thinks that the show just really needs to end in season six. On the other hand, if the show went the route of introducing Henry and his kid, it could go a long way to returning the show to its true roots if it picked up the theme of family reunions and reconciliation that was the emotional driving force of the first few seasons of OUAT.