Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1842576-20180925181218/@comment-34657163-20181002020429

I think Jared Gilmore is a weak actor, and combined with some silly lines,

"It's cheesy and it doesn't lie" (214 or 215)

makes Henry at times annoying. I also felt that from season four and onwards, Jared's acting ability becomes more noticeably weak. I guess he was fine in 310/311 and I don't remember him in Dark Waters other than him saying "Hey!" or something when Hook tosses his pop tarts.

His character also gets scattered, I guess, starting in 3B. Regina misses him for one year, and while it's tragic it can't hurt as much as being orphaned for 28 years, so when they reconcile it comes off as a little cute but mostly meh. The producers also suddenly depict their relationship as it was absolutely perfect prior to Snowing's curse in 3B, but it really wasn't since they barely interact in 3A as an actual son-mother relationship. 3A proves, "yes Regina loves him" but doesn't show if she can manage that (i didn't explain that very well). I also think that convincing your son is crazy and sending him to a psychiatrist to protect your curse (a whole other tangent) from whenever he realized that Storybrooke is weird (I imagine him noticing the lack of aging and time was the implication of Henry being sent to Archie's before even getting the book) is some sort of abuse.

With that being said, I don't really think Henry as a character ignored Emma but it was just quite apparent the writers themselves ignored writing more for that relationship (which isn't very different but i think it's different enough to be worth adding).