Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196008-20160511002623/@comment-4427410-20160511164635

'Great post, I feel similar. However, I feel that this was an A & E choice (technically they do have final say even if there's so network push). I deemed so after conventions held before season 4 and 5, I think and Eddy tends to ask "Who wants to see Regina?" then follows with "Who wants to see the Evil Queen?" I'm thinking they have a quite simple problem: they are actually succombing to what their villains alwasy want: They want everything!. Villains and anti-heroes are much more interesting than docile heroes.

I could see that Robin may have simply been a transitory item which I could believe as they surely treated Robin worst than Belle. I don't think they really wanted Regina to get a love interest and when they did so, everything was dumped when Frozen came along, and then Robin was pretty much background scenery.'

Then that whole scene between Regina and Zombie Daniel in Season 2's "The Doctor" WAS FOR NOTHING.