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Do you think Emma was ever adopted from the orphanage? We never knew how she got her last name (maybe she gave herself one?) so I’m thinking she was. With that being said, I wonder if we’re going to meet the “Swans.” Can’t think of how that would be relevant to the plot, but just a thought.
[adrotate group="5"]In the pilot, Emma tells Henry that she had a family til she was three, but then, they had their own kid and sent her back.
K&H elaborated on the name Swan – it’s a nod to the Swan Station on LOST and also, to the Ugly Duckling story.
Emma being the ‘ugly duckling’…not fitting in, but, learning, through her journey – everything she went through until she finally believed – that she is the Saviour, and beomes the ‘Swan’.
I would love to have an episode where it flashed back to a very young Emma.
But yeah, what Gypsy said – she got her last name from the first family she was with until she was 3. I want to see what these people are like. Because how can you take care of a little girl for years and then just give her back because you had one of your own? I mean… did they not connect with her at all? They were there probably for her first steps, first words… how do you just give a kid away like that?
@Schmacky wrote:
I would love to have an episode where it flashed back to a very young Emma.
But yeah, what Gypsy said – she got her last name from the first family she was with until she was 3. I want to see what these people are like. Because how can you take care of a little girl for years and then just give her back because you had one of your own? I mean… did they not connect with her at all? They were there probably for her first steps, first words… how do you just give a kid away like that?
That’s exactly what I thought. Why would they send her back after taking care of her for so long? Which of course makes me think that there’s a backstory to that. These writers are completely capable of taking what would seem like a throw away line and then turning it in to a whole story. Just look at Regina’s Tallahassee comment. So yeah, I would live to have a flash back involving ” the Swans” but I don’t think we’ll be getting it this season. Maybe next year?
I could see it as a season 3 episode. Maybe Emma was a serious handful when she was young (and always)? Obviously that is absolutely no excuse to just toss a kid aside. I bet you the fact that she was sent back because they had their own kid has done more damage to her than anything else that happened to her (and there’s a lot that’s happened to her).
Before she knew who her parents were she could always say about them abandoning her because they didn’t want kids or they couldn’t take care of her or they were young and stupid etc. But how do you excuse someone sending you away when you’re 3? Because they had their own biological child? Yowch. That must have created some serious self-worth issues.
But yeah, I wanna know what kind of kid Emma was.
I would love to see more from Emma’s past… childhood, etc.
It is possible the first family she was with gave her her name… but I don’t think she was ever adopted by them, because then they couldn’t just give her back (or that would be absolutely horrible)…
Also, she got emancipated when she was 16, so I am guessing there were some more issues that we didn’t hear about… because you don’t age out of the system until you’re 18, and need special permission to get out when you are only 16…
My guess is that she remained at the home where August was until the one newspaper article was published (it’s headline was something about ‘still no leads on baby Emma’s parents’) and then they put her into fostercare… they would have wanted to “make sure” she was “adoptable” before placing her with a family as an infant, right?
So her first fam, she was probably with for 2.5 years or something.
@EIreland wrote:
My guess is that she remained at the home where August was until the one newspaper article was published (it’s headline was something about ‘still no leads on baby Emma’s parents’) and then they put her into fostercare… they would have wanted to “make sure” she was “adoptable” before placing her with a family as an infant, right?
That’s a cool idea. Also thinking that this article on ‘no leads on the parents’ could be one published by August? In the end he does have a typewriter so he could’ve worked for a newspaper for a short time and use it to influence Emma?
Yeah, August definitely could’ve written that…. Doesn’t he say in Tallahassee that he lost track of her for a time or something? I don’t remember what time period he was talking about!
I think the article that says no leads is when Emma was a baby so August was only a kid… Doubt he wrote the article.
Did Emma actually say she was emancipated or just out of the system by 16? Because she could have just run away.
True, she could have been on her own. I don’t remember the wording. But she didn’t change her name or anything, so I’d think perhaps she just got out of the system.
Yes, the article is placed when Emma was a baby, but I would doubt she would have found it then… she likely found it later when she was looking for her parents, so August could have planted yet?
Or, it is just a true article from her file or something.
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