Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170327005929/@comment-31564770-20170327035720

JMsapphireZ wrote: Can anyone explain to me which was the retcon that Edzz and VulonNight has pointed out? Sure. What I saw as a retcon was where they went back and had Regina hating herself even before the curse was cast. She now has active knowledge of her self-hate, and at the time when Snow was still running, too. Always before this, I'd had the feeling that Regina was just lost and broken, and that on some level she did hate herself, but it was much more subconscious and she didn't fully realize it. So, she cast the curse with the belief that she could start fresh in a way, get her revenge and move on. Always, the story has been that Regina's hole in her heart started when she killed her father, and that Henry was the one to change her and fill it, and later Robin helped there too. Now, we have Regina with a hole in her heart, hating herself above all else, early on. You'd think that using a magic arrow to find who you hate and having it lead you to a mirror would be jarring enough, I mean come on! That's a total "wtf have I done what have I become I've wasted my life" moment. Instead, she just digs herself deeper in a hole and plot continues as it always has.

Basically, it totally shook up the mood of Regina's story, and an event of this magnitude should've changed something. What I'm saying is, it doesn't really fit now does it. If there was any sort of logic at all to Regina there, she would've taken a good hard look at her life choices and maybe changed something. Instead, she goes ahead with her murderous rampage as if that never even happened. Yeah, sure, you could say that she wanted to ignore it, was too emotional, or whatever. But still, it doesn't feel right, does it? There's also the fact that this only came up in Regina's memory now. One would figure that realizing you hate yourself would be something you'd remember. Yet Regina didn't, not before she split, not while she was split, not at any point until she was actually looking at a mirror shard about to crush her other half's heart. There was absolutely no lead up to this at all, the writers just dropped it in as a plot point for solely this episode.

It just feels out of place on so many levels.