Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32042217-20170518162408/@comment-1916997-20170523223125

VulonNight wrote:

Ok so the second thing I see happening is people taking my reverse-personality thinking kinda wrong. I'm not flipping who they were in the past, or who they were in the first curse, or anything like that. I'm flipping them as they are in the finale. S6 Regina= emotional, finally at peace with herself, and can make hard choices. Thus, cursed S7 Regina= emotional, but shallowly and afraid of commitment. She's indecisive because she's afraid of failing, and so she stays stagnant in the world, unable to move forward. She's the mayor...'s secretary. She's not happy where she is, but doesn't know how to move forward, doesn't wanna screw up and go backward, and so she feels trapped. She can see where she wants to be but she can never get there- if I have to throw an analogy, I'd use Tantalus. It's a Greek myth, look it up. Basic overview is there's this guy trapped in the underworld and his punishment is that he is kneeling by a pool of water and there's a tree with delicious fruit next to it. He's always hungry and thirsty, but whenever he tries to take a drink or grab some fruit, the pool recedes and the branches pull back so he can never reach them. So Regina, who works for the mayor, who is everything she wants to be, has to constantly be around this person who is all the things her cursed self isn't and she wants to be that so badly but never can. That's what a miserable cursed person looks like. We reverse their personality, not their actions. CDA said Regina made herself real-world small town mayor/queen in the first curse, but never helped anyone so now she's trying to help in a soup kitchen but can't get the money. I'd say that isn't really worse than who she was before the curse, and it isn't really different. Reversing actions/circumstances does not a cursed person make. Remember that in a show about hope and happiness, a curse looks like taking away any chance of either. So I feel like we should be basing our theories around that. Yeah, I get it, I was just doing a different take on it. And I think there is more than one way for someone to be miserable, it's just which one the writers decide to go with.