@TheGoldenKey wrote:
Are we really going to try to compare this adoption to a real life situation? Seriously, we are talking about the Evil Queen adopting Snow White’s grandson. Somehow, I don’t think real life adoption rules and regulations come into play here. It’s a fantasy show and not meant to be taken so seriously. Because it’s fantasy, real world rules just don’t apply. You simply can’t compare real life adoption or fostering situations to this at all. We’ve got the Evil Queen, who murdered Snow’s father, murdered her own father, tried and thought she successfully murdered her mother, murdered countless others throughout the years, murdered Graham, nearly murdered Henry, and we’ve got people rallying for her saying how dare Emma assume she’s got no parental rights? Seriously? 😆
Are we really willing to forget mommy dearest’s baking activities that landed her adoptive son in the hospital, at death’s door? I think any rights were long done after that shinning moment of motherhood.
Emma tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Emma reached out on Henry’s behalf. Emma saw the vision of her chocking the life out of yet another victim and said enough was enough! Ever think that perhaps Emma instinctively knew that what she was seeing was her own vision due to her own magic thus the vision could be trusted? Emma, Snow, Charming, and the others, don’t have the benefit of seeing what the viewers do.
I want to see Reggie redeemed. Lana continues to floor me with the depths of her performances. We go from feeling so sorry for her as Reggie, to hating her as EQ, back to feeling so heartbroken for her as Reggie.
In the end, it’s all make believe. I can’t put any weight into whether they are following appropriate adoption laws when I see the Queen of Hearts, standing by an invisible ship, alongside Captain Hook and turning a man into a fish. Fantasy.
WORD to all of that. The fact that they had Regina and Gold speak of the adoption as “a deal” and that he “procured” Henry for her, makes it all sound underhanded, which is to be expected IMO. I mean, if it was all legal in real world terms, then why was the local pawn broker involved in the process at all? He was only involved because Regina knew him as a baby dealer in FTL, so she went to him in SB for that same purpose, likely because she had no real world legal avenues to go down to adopt a baby.
Regarding the apple turnover debate, IMO the main point isn’t whether or not Regina is to blame for what happened to Henry in particular. The point is that she was willing to put ANYONE under a sleeping curse, let alone someone she knew her son cared about. Even if it had gone as planned, and it had knocked Emma out, that’s still just as bad as what ended up happening…either way, Henry got hurt. Even if she’d put a stranger under a sleeping curse, that’s still a very bad thing to do. So either way, Regina’s not a decent, stable sort of a person who should be in charge of the welfare of a child.
On a lighter note, Charming’s “Its impressive that we can still provide her with a few traumatic childhood memories at this stage of the game,” made me 😆