Emma alone on her birthday

[hjbau]

I was watching the Pilot again and now knowing that Henry is out there and how close she has gotten with Mary i just felt so sorry for Emma being alone on her birthday. There is great emotion there. You can really see how not being able to find her family has messed Emma up. I wasn’t a huge Emma fan at first, though that has completely changed and now she is my favorite character, but the opening scene has really grown on me. It shows that Emma is vulnerable because of the loss of her family and yet is this strong bail bonds person. And then Henry came.

I also thought it was funny that Emma had difficulty walking in high heals.

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@hjbau wrote:

Emma had difficulty walking in high heals.

Yes! So not princess-like.
I always liked that scene, because it somehow showed how her life must have been up until that moment. There aren’t that many people who just can’t trust people at all, ending up friendless. And Emma makes such a good friend. Probably exactly because she’s never truly had one …

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@hjbau wrote:

You can really see how not being able to find her family has messed Emma up. I wasn’t a huge Emma fan at first, though that has completely changed and now she is my favorite character, but the opening scene has really grown on me. It shows that Emma is vulnerable because of the loss of her family and yet is this strong bail bonds person. And then Henry came.

Even more than that though. Even if she hadn’t been able to find her family, if she’d had a stable replacement home she probably would have grown up able to trust people enough to form some kind of lasting attachments.

Seems she never had a trustworthy foster family or any friends worth keeping. Probably not any that didn’t want to take advantage of her.

But yeah, after seeing Emma with her cupcake, you realize how she could up and move town, leave her home, her profession and not have a single person email or call her to say “Hey, where’d you go?” Makes Henry giving her that big hug and her slowly wrapping her arms around him more poignant.

Now if we could JUST get her to hug her Mom.

[hjbau]

I know. I really think they would hug it out after their near death experience. Though Mary almost seemed angry when she walked away from Emma in the last episode. Maybe they will finally hug after Mary goes free.

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