the emma scene just came off as her being frustrated to me. so she snapped at henry to basically stay outta the way?
I know that’s probably what it was—emotionally stunted Emma coming to the end of her wits, but the thing is: Henry didn’t deserve that. It was abuse of authority and power, and it hurt to watch. Emma’s entitled to having a melt-down, but not over Henry’s back—Henry who has done nothing but sit around on his ass, listening to his mom lie to him. He politely confronted her with him knowing something what up, and she kept lying to him. Now, he’s making a statement, saying he has the right to know a truth that he knows impacts him as well—and Emma needs to get the fuck over herself. She has memories of herself supporting him for his entire life, she has taken care of him for a year. She loves this boy, and she would do anything for him—we’ve seen in memory-less Emma that she was able to put Henry first; i cut her slack on her regression to egocentric!Emma as long as she didn’t hurt Henry—but here she hurt Henry, and that’s not okay. And yes, I’m overreacting because it hits close to home, but still. this crap wasn’t okay when Regina pulled it, and it certainly isn’t now Emma is pulling it. Oh—and if this is supposed to be a parallel or a way to drive Henry into Regina’s arms (because he wouldn’t go there by himself?) I’m going to hurt someone.
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When I fist saw this scene I thought Emma was trying to give him a hard time, like Regina did, so the book wd show up. When I found out it wasn’t I got confused too.
That would still have been a very shitty reason to me, to be honest; the book already had quite enough reason to show up. Also: parallel, and this is one parallel we don’t need, to be honest.
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I feel that in Emma still haven’t fully come to terms with all this magic and flying monkeys thing. She misses their life in New York, when everything was plain and simple. But like Snow said to Emma later at the scene in the apartment, “[New York] wasn’t home”.
To me, Emma is being a little selfish here. She doesn’t want that kind of complicated-full-of-magic-and-curses life for Henry, and maybe she has the right to feel this way. But she still has to remember that Henry has other family too: Regina, the Charmings etc. That is what she realised in the talk she had with Snow in the apartment scene and that was what made Emma fully turn around and parallel Henry in S1: encouraging him to believe.
Because as much as Emma loves the life in New York for the both of them, she loves Henry most and apart from his memories, family is what Henry needs.
Exactly! I get that Emma doesn’t want to lose him, and she doesn’t want to give up what she had, but part of being a parent is that you let go of the dreams you can’t maintain. You can’t get your child into danger—and that’s what Emma’s behaviour has boiled down to. It was bad enough that her sheltering caused heartache for everyone and put Henry in harm’s way, but if the writers had allowed Zelena to be a little smarter, Henry would be dead by now. Also: going so far as to project your fears and anger onto your child and making them out to be the bad guy (like Regina did, and no, I’m never forgetting that either) is not okay. Ever.