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Also, I would have liked it if they had actually redeemed the pure evil EQ, instead of just giving her some of "Regina's goodness. Henry was starting to go down that road with her in this episode, and then it seems they went "Oh, forget it. Too much trouble". I especially rang hollow at the end when Snow went on about how she had never believed that the evil queen could change.

Snow, either Regina is the Evil Queen, in which case the Evil Queen already changed a long time ago, or you were specifically talking about the exclusively dark side of Regina, in which case, that wasn't her at that point. That was the a version of Regina who had absorbed the "goodness" from Regina, and so was no longer the EQ by Snow's standards when she supposedly had a change of heart, which was really just a result of magic.

I think that at this point we've seen that magic can't truely change a person's heart any more than it can make them truely fall in love.