@EvilQueen wrote:
1) King George not only needed A son but he needed someone mentally fit to be a king. Also, he probably would’ve wanted a boy that would resemble him (physically) at least a bit. All this definitely limited the possibilities – after all, how a king can expect any peasant kid to grow strong and intelligent? Then, if he really wanted to go into this, he would’ve had to do a “research” among the ‘potential parents’ and, however discrete that can be, people surely would notice if strangers started asking weird questions and then a child disappeared while the king miraculously conceived a heir? It would be every king’s worry that something, some time, would be discovered (whether it’s a deal or a kidnap) and a gossip would start, then his kingdom would fall apart or start an internal war. With Rumple’s deal, he avoided all that – his ‘son’ not only turned out to be a handsome, strong, smart and charming but also his real parents were bound by magic to never speak about it. Convenient!
Agreed, it was the most discrete and efficient way for George to go about it.
2) I think the only kingdom they fought for was Snow White’s when Evil Queen took over it – but even in this case, I don’t see how Snow would’ve had more rights to the kingdom than Regina, in the end she was a rightful Queen because she married Leopold (and it had its great sacrifice to it too!). They rebelled because EQ was, well, evil. Fair enough. But King George’s kingdom? Er, have they ever considered taking it over? What bit are you talking about, I think I must have missed something?
They end up living in George’s castle, use his table for their War Council, and adopt his family crest as their own. Also, we’ve seen George say to Charming in SB that she should have killed him when he had the chance. All of that amounts to them re-taking the kingdom that Charming is kinda sort heir to, even though he’d only been the kinda sorta heir for all of 5 minutes. If they have the choice of attempting to overthrow a mortal king or a magical queen, the former is obviously the more get-able goal. Once they achieve that, they no longer have to fear George, and have somewhere safe to live so they’re not constantly at the mercy of Regina.
3) This is what’s been bugging me too. Both Charming and Regina protested when Rumple said Henry will have to go back to the red room – but how exactly would they stop him? So far there has been nothing on how to prevent the boy going there while he’s asleep, Rumplestiltskin only gave him the necklace to CONTROL it, not to stop him from going there and now even that is useless as Charming has it. So I really hope they will explain how exactly they can protect Henry from coming back to the red room otherwise it would be pretty stupid of Charming to do what he did and 5 minutes later Henry would meet him there anyway. Also, now Charming’s trapped there, wouldn’t Henry protest if Regina and Mr Gold stopped him from going to the red room?
There’s another thread on here discussing this issue where I mentioned the same thing, but I believe it was the communication aspect of being in the room that caused Henry physical harm. If he falls asleep, sure he’ll go back to the room, and it’ll be scary, but as long as he’s not trying to communicate with someone against the room’s will, the room poses no actual physical threat to him. So Charming stepped into the role of communicator, to spare Henry the added trauma. Charming believed he’d go in, do the job, and come back out, so didn’t consider the problem of potentially leaving Henry and SB unguarded indefinitely.