Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20150509042358/@comment-4975807-20150605170537

For the suggestion about Regina possibly finding a way to reverse her inability to conceive a child, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I'll admit when OutlawQueen first started happening on the show, I did feel giddy with excitement wondering what their future would look like and if they would ever, somewhere in the far (or near) future, have a child of their own to add to their merged family of two boys (Henry & Roland). This fantasy came out from my perception that the young Regina from "The Stable Boy" when she was madly in love with Daniel always just wanted a normal, simple life, and I always envisioned had that happened, she would have been happy with Daniel and possibly become a mother. I thought the same when Robin was first presented as her second chance at love in "Quite a Common Fairy", and had she taken that route, I'm almost certain she would have had at least one child with him. So, yeah, it is slightly disappointing to find out in "Mother" that Regina is infertile, but at the same time, it makes things seem so real for a character in a fantasy/magic show like Regina, whose infertility is a struggle faced by women in real life.

The way Snow White's infertility and subsequent reversal of it with magic water from Lake Nostos was plausible because it was a plot device, and of course it had to be reversed because it was already canon on the show that she gave birth to Emma, so she couldn't be infertile in flashback forever. For Regina's infertility to be reversed, the only way I can see that happening is if it's not just a convenient and rushed thing thrown into the script, and if it's something that's vital to the plot of the episode.