Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-5106672-20151109035925

Ray Donovan wrote:

LostGirl01 wrote: Regina always calls herself the Evil Queen in front of people she's threatening, but claims that she's changed and wants people to accept her around others. I think that symbolizes her hypocritical personality perfectly. I just hate how inconsistent they write Regina. Sometimes, she does come off as a whiny victim and sometimes, she has great awareness of her bad deeds like thinking she was the one with the most potential of darkness when Chernobog was in town. Just horrible writing. Not really, IMO. She is both a victim and a massacrer AND her own massacrer. People can be both and there's no denying that horrible parenting and bad mentorship contributed forgin her into a monster, while the rest was her own choice and doing. Earlier in the series she used her being a victim as a justification for her deeds, and that's just wrong (it was neither Cora nor Rumple who massacred a town of peasants). Now she's finally coming to terms with her own part in what she did both to others and to herself. We've gone from "Perhaps I'm good and you see me as a villain" in S2, to "My worst enemy is me and I have very low moral grounds to stand on" now. At first she defended herself behind the former to the point of delusion, now she's coming to terms with the latter and being honest about that. Of course, it's not like she should stop blaming Cora and Rumple's influence, because that did freaking happen; she has every right to do it. What's wrong is to ignore her own part in her descent to darkness, which she clearly isn't anymore.

As for hypocrisy, do you people really know what that word even means? Please, go check a dictionary, because you might get some long overdue lexical and conceptual insight.