History Headscratchers / Haven

*** Given that nobody Nathan's age remembers him attending school or just being around with the last name of Hansen, it's likely that he was adopted before he started kindergarten. Most notably, in "Spiral," Duke recognizes Max Hansen as the guy who killed an entire family, but ''not'' as Nathan's father. He doesn't even consider that Max and Nathan might be related until Audrey painstakingly spells it out for him. And Duke has known Nathan since he was five years old.

*** Given that nobody Nathan's age, including Duke (who has known him since he was five) remembers Nathan attending school or just being around with the last name of Hansen, it's likely that he was adopted before he started kindergarten.

[[fodler: William in the Barn]]
* So, William's behavior before TheReveal is a little odd, in retrospect. Everything he does in the Barn is supposed to be re-contextualized after TheReveal. He wanted it to be Mara walking out of the Barn. He wanted Lexie to remember she was originally Mara. He is annoyed that the persona that walks out is Audrey. But everything he did inside the Barn were things that would jog ''Audrey's'' memory, not Mara's. The AmenesiacResonance he tried to induce by disassembling a handgun and having one of his mooks threaten to shoot him makes '''zero sense''' in trying to get Lexie to remember she was Mara. That is 100% a BatmanGambit for Audrey. What is the missing motivation here? There might be some FridgeBrilliance there as to why Audrey walked out of the Barn and Mara didn't, but it still doesn't make sense, if William's end goal was to get Mara back.

Granted, the show stinks at pretty much anything psychological. For being a psychiatrist, Claire spouts erroneous information about psychology all the time. But this seems like a pretty weird plot hole.

** The relationship between Nathan's Trouble and Audrey's AntiMagic is weirdly never discussed, but it appears that Nathan can only feel Audrey when it's direct skin contact. They actually touch quite a bit prior to TheReveal, but thanks to careful costuming and acting, it's never skin-to-skin. Even in the pilot, Nathan pulls Audrey out of the car, but by her arm, not her hand, and they're both wearing thick coats. In "Butterfly," Audrey puts a hand on Nathan's shoulder to stop him attacking the Rev, which he can't feel through his shirt. In "Consumed," they can't seem to stop bumping into each other, but their hands are in their pockets and they're both wearing coats. In "Ball and Chain," they brush shoulders while discussing the case at the Gull, but while Nathan's wearing short sleeves, she's wearing a jacket. In the same episode, he taps her back to get her attention, which he can't feel thanks to her blazer. In "Harmony," Audrey tases him and he says he didn't feel it, and does not react when she checks him over and puts a hand on his arm, since he's wearing long sleeves. Even when he hands her a coffee at the start of "Ain't No Sunshine," he just misses brushing her hand. This doesn't really explain the NoodleIncident that is Nathan cutting Audrey out of the boa constrictor blanket in "Butterfly" while she was dressed in only a towel, except that he seems pretty uncomfortable about it and he probably tried really, really hard not to touch her or even look at her.

** The relationship between Nathan's Trouble and Audrey's Anti-Magic is weirdly never discussed, but it appears that Nathan can only feel Audrey when it's direct skin contact. They actually touch quite a bit prior to TheReveal, but thanks to careful costuming and acting, it's never skin-to-skin. In "Butterfly," Audrey puts a hand on Nathan's shoulder to stop him attacking the Rev, which he can't feel through his shirt. In "Consumed," they can't seem to stop bumping into each other, but their hands are in their pockets and they're both wearing coats. In "Ball and Chain," they brush shoulders while discussing the case at the Gull, but while Nathan's wearing short sleeves, she's wearing a jacket. In the same episode, he taps her back to get her attention, which he can't feel thanks to her blazer. In "Harmony," Audrey tases him and he says he didn't feel it, and does not react when she checks him over and puts a hand on his arm, since he's wearing long sleeves. Even when he hands her a coffee at the start of "Ain't No Sunshine," he just misses brushing her hand. This doesn't really explain the NoodleIncident that is Nathan cutting Audrey out of the boa constrictor blanket in "Butterfly" while she was dressed in only a towel, except that he seems pretty uncomfortable about it and he probably tried really, really hard not to touch her or even look at her.

*** At various points in season 1, the Chief refers back to when Nathan was a "little kid" or a "little boy," and Nathan was also young enough when adopted that Garland felt it was appropriate to give him a middle name or change the one he had; Nathan mentions in "As You Were" that "Thaddeus" specifically came from him.