Oh yes, I agree. It's not that I can't see anything in Paige that is ever curious or smart. I just think it's weird that they talk about her being those things now as if that's a description of her actions here at a time when she's being so completely the opposite.
Henry learned how to survive being left alone by becoming independent,
Honestly, I don't even think it was a question of learning to survive for Henry. He didn't know the secret so all he had to deal with was parents who weren't always there what he wanted them.
Henry in this ep is actually acting a lot like his father. He's busy. He's got stuff going on. He's choosing to not come home for the summer because school's important and he needs to work. But that doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. He accepted the flaws in his family without being obsessed with it. I mean, they don't have a pretend family. They have a real family, it's just got a bizarre secret.
When Henry finds out the truth it will probably be completely shattering because it will totally destroy everything he thought he knew about his life and himself. I understand it *feeling* pretend in that moment. In some ways of course it is. But in other ways it isn't pretend at all.
In exchange, the center allowed him to 'have' Henry.
Did they? This is off topic but it seems like everyone on the show somehow understood all along that Henry would not be brought into that story. Because I don't think Philip got any more say in what happened to Henry if the Centre wanted him than he had with Paige. Why would he?
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Honestly, I don't even think it was a question of learning to survive for Henry. He didn't know the secret so all he had to deal with was parents who weren't always there what he wanted them.
Henry in this ep is actually acting a lot like his father. He's busy. He's got stuff going on. He's choosing to not come home for the summer because school's important and he needs to work. But that doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. He accepted the flaws in his family without being obsessed with it. I mean, they don't have a pretend family. They have a real family, it's just got a bizarre secret.
When Henry finds out the truth it will probably be completely shattering because it will totally destroy everything he thought he knew about his life and himself. I understand it *feeling* pretend in that moment. In some ways of course it is. But in other ways it isn't pretend at all.
Did they? This is off topic but it seems like everyone on the show somehow understood all along that Henry would not be brought into that story. Because I don't think Philip got any more say in what happened to Henry if the Centre wanted him than he had with Paige. Why would he?