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Regina adopting Henry was absolutely, positively legal!!! Therefore, Regina by law is Henry’s mother! So…if the Charmings are smart then they shouldn’t challenge her again because she can take them to court if necessary. Now that that’s squared away!
The family who almost had Henry, I think was completely random, but nothing is ever random on Once…so no idea.
Darling Bros: Over there…over there…send the word, send the word, over there…
That’s all I have to say on the Darling…
"If you go as far as you can see...you will then see enough to go even further." - Finn Balor
The biggest takeaway Regina saved Henry’s life.
Yes she did. I do love that she saved Henry from Pan for years but the actual adoption is fishy. No background check, SB isn’t on any map or the internet, no house visits? No how adoption works.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Yes it was all easy but it also points at a larger issue for the series: fate.
Rumple’s machinations have been to circumvent his fate (and end up causing it by doing so e.g. maiming himself led to his boy growing up without a father).
Regina’s machinations have been to unknowingly assist Rumple.
But there are parts of the story that are WAY beyond the control of Rumple. Or Blue. Or Regina. Or anyway. There was no magic involved in Emma and Neal getting together and having Henry. That was fate.
So for it to be fate that baby Henry also ended up in Boston, so close to Storybrooke could also just be fate.
I think these are the questions that we have to leave unanswered for the simple fact that it is a TV show. Suspend our belief in the same way we did when Emma’s things from Boston found their way to Storybrooke in 1×04.
Custodian of Graham's darts, Rumple's spindle and Robin's quiver
I think these are the questions that we have to leave unanswered for the simple fact that it is a TV show. Suspend our belief in the same way we did when Emma’s things from Boston found their way to Storybrooke in 1×04.
I have no problem suspending for stuff like Emma’s things. But for them to circumvent a lot of how adoption works and just go MAGIC! or FATE! that’s troublesome and I think there is more to the story.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I think these are the questions that we have to leave unanswered for the simple fact that it is a TV show. Suspend our belief in the same way we did when Emma’s things from Boston found their way to Storybrooke in 1×04.
I have no problem suspending for stuff like Emma’s things. But for them to circumvent a lot of how adoption works and just go MAGIC! or FATE! that’s troublesome and I think there is more to the story.
Ditto! I mean adoption during the internet age that just was like poof, something is sneaky, very sneaky.
Also, where is the judge/court? Things were left out and that annoys me.
Also, where is the judge/court? Things were left out and that annoys me.
Like you just said in the chat: all she did was sign a piece of paper. If it’s legal, that’s ok I’m not disputing that but lots of things are legal but shady. And this whole things screams shady.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Agreed, RG and kpercyman.
I’d love there to be more to the story, but I fear there won’t be, and as Henry’s adoption is such a MAJOR event in the whole mythos of this show, I’m sorta disappointed that this is the story we got to explain it. Even if that adoption agency is ethically suspect in that they’ll take a payoff to change where a baby goes, are they seriously not gonna check out the location that a baby is going to? And when the mother comes back to return the kid, are they seriously not gonna consider the child’s welfare and just let the erratic woman who wants the baby, then doesn’t want the baby, then does want the baby again, just take off with the baby? To a town they can’t find on a map? Seriously? That’s not just ethically suspect, that’s negligent of child welfare, so I’m finding it hard to buy into.
I did like the emotional side of this story, but the lack of logic just leaves me perplexed and dissatisfied about this plot point as a whole.
Agreed, RG and kpercyman. I’d love there to be more to the story, but I fear there won’t be, and as Henry’s adoption is such a MAJOR event in the whole mythos of this show, I’m sorta disappointed that this is the story we got to explain it. Even if that adoption agency is ethically suspect in that they’ll take a payoff to change where a baby goes, are they seriously not gonna check out the location that a baby is going to? And when the mother comes back to return the kid, are they seriously not gonna consider the child’s welfare and just let the erratic woman who wants the baby, then doesn’t want the baby, then does want the baby again, just take off with the baby? To a town they can’t find on a map? Seriously? That’s not just ethically suspect, that’s negligent of child welfare, so I’m finding it hard to buy into. I did like the emotional side of this story, but the lack of logic just leaves me perplexed and dissatisfied about this plot point as a whole.
The emotional side was fantastic, but after 2.5 seasons and that’s it: she signed a piece of paper from an agency who did none of things agencies are supposed to do?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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