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Silvergirl, your final paragraph is particularly interesting. It prompted the remark, “I’ve never thought of it like that … !” Not that I necessarily agree – but I hadn’t thought about this aspect of the storyline at all. To me it’s just a situation where the writers are doing what they do and we’re interpreting it as best we can – like most forms of “art”! (When you think of the many ways we analyse paintings, poetry and so on – can all those messages and subtexts really have been in the mind of the creator?! It’s all so subjective.) I’ve simply assumed that child characters are depicted pretty broadly – either well-behaved, badly behaved, clever, spoiled, silent or all of the above.
I’d be surprised if the writers’ intentions were half as sophisticated and nuanced as the way we read these stories.
I have always thought that Rob would start teaching Henry to be disrespectful to his mother and women in general for that matter. He seemed to be going that way. So I wouldn’t be surprised if we heard a lot more of his ‘we men’ sort of remarks in Henry’s presence, the sort of thing he said – in front of Helen – to Tom about ‘you know what women are like’.
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