The development of Tony and Annie's relationship has been my favorite part of GC for a while now. It ignores the easy trope of Tony being a horrible abusive father because he's a bad person. Neither has it tried to sugarcoat things - what Tony did was awful and the story has pulled no punches. It also ignores the "sudden revelation, now everything is cool" plot that most media employs. Their relationship is deeply broken and has damaged both Tony and Annie to the point they cannot interact anymore - even if both of them are aware the other is trying.

Adding an extra Annie has been an interesting twist on it. Tony doesn't think of Forest Annie as "his" Annie, and as such is able to have a much more normal relationship with her. Which only twists the knife deeper into Court Annie...