Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4999250-20131118035114/@comment-5571357-20131118140624

Theforgottenreflection wrote: Well you have to figure with Henry, he wants nothing more than to be a fabled Hero, he's read about them, discovered his comes from a long line of "famous heroes" and he just wants to live up to that expectation. Henry is a good kid, but the keyword there is kid. He does not have the experience as his family does in realizing when he is being manipulated or not.

As for him not believing his family... you have a few factors here, the First being as I mentioned above, a chance to be a hero and Pan's ringing in his ear that "Heros always get tested" and that coupls with the second of his family having already lied to him once in effort to protect him. It is logical to believe that if the situation was different and Pan were telling the truth and Henry would need to die to save magic, Henry knows his family would let magic fade in order to save him... which Henry might do as well, but you have Wendy and her (illness) swimming in Henry's mind too... Henry being the only one on the island that doesn't know the truth. It was honestly the perfect setup and as much as I screamed at my T.V. last night "Henry you stupid little b******" ... honestly, you can't blame the kid great attempt at good intentions. But I addressed with the fact that he took things at face value from complete strangers...and he already had a hint that Pan was evil. Whereas in Season 1 with Regina, his stepmother who he's known longer, he knew she was evil and sitll did everything to stop her and did NOT believe her speeches about good intentions.

That is a complete 180 from how he behaved this season.