stj wrote:
But, Henry now thinks of Regina as Mom?
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My EXACT biggest problem with the episode. He's never thought of her or treated her that way, much less referred to her that way.
I don't know why they went with that motivation instead of the obvious (and better) one: that Henry, like Emma, is the human moral compass for the fairytale characters.
It's not "don't kill her, she's my mom!"
It's: "don't kill her: YOU are not the bad guys, SHE is! And the good guys don't act like the bad guys!"
Moral compass, yes. "Don't kill my (never cared about her before) mom!" - no.
Otherwise, it just becomes a second emotional bribery echoing Rumpel/Belle - and doing the same thing twice takes away from the Rumpel/Belle promise too.