Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180101191335/@comment-34657163-20180603193113

Aine1989 wrote: Okayyy having watched 7x12 I think I'd put Tremaine..... Just above Neal, and here's why I place her so low:

Tremaine's redemption was just about Drizella. Apologising to Drizella, telling Drizella she loves her, saving Drizella. And that's grand but what about Ella? Whom she hurt arguably just as much as she did Drizella? She poisoned her mother, made her a servant, framed her for murder, put her daughter into a coma (and as far as I have seen, Ella does not know she did this). Where is Ella's apology? Where is Ella's redemption. It's one thing to apologise to someone you love and always loved, it's another to do it to someone you don't love (or like really, that's what I got from Tremaine any way). That's what makes her redemption fairly weak for me. I mostly agree with Ella's partbut in Rapunzel's defence she:

A. died before she could do that

B. also died to ressurrect Lucy (undoing your own mistake isn't like, super grand, but it was still signs of growth)

She also faced up and accepted all of her crimes (granted, via Eloise) in front of her daughter who she spent years trying to reconcile with (although, she did try to justify it with, "so we could be together again!"...), and I feel like the way she was going, she probably would have apologized.

Nonetheless, Ella is probably awake wondering why people don't still dislike her stepmother.