@RumplesGirl wrote:
Jared has gotten so much criticism this season and I feel terrible for him. I hope it doesn’t kill his spirit. I think he has a lot of room to grow but he does not ruin the experience of OUAT for me.
As for Henry, I find him illogical but I also think he’s eleven. He does idiotic things, but he’s 11. I am more forgiving than some fans, I think.
I like Henry a lot. I agree with you about the writing – sometimes his character is just not well written. He was also written much more mature than a normal 11 year old would be, probably because he needed to “know more” than the adults to move the story along (at least that was true in S1). Once the curse broke and he was proved correct, it was like the writers didn’t know what to do with him anymore. I loved all the Operation Cobra stuff in S1 – including his interactions with August. But now the issues are more serious and they couldn’t really have him trying to go up against Cora or the Wraith. The adults have to do that. So he is now back to being a normal kid who knows a lot but is still eleven years old. So he gets taken out of dangerous situations, which is necessary. The line about the pizza in NYC gave him an edge to his personality that most fans didn’t like (myself included)- even when he stood up to Regina about being the EQ in S1, he was more direct and not sarcastic.
