Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26184308-20150330222607/@comment-1916997-20150410173855

GothicNarcissus wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: I like that thought. However, there is a slight problem of timing. Lily was already hatching from the Egg when she went through the portal, along with Cruella and Ursula. And Lily can't be more than 3 months old at the time of the adoption. And she was already in the System, so it would seem that either she was found, or Cruella and Ursula turned her over to Child Protective Services (Which would actually be the smart thing to do at the time, since they had no way of raising a baby). If Cruella and Ursulla did turn the child over to CPS, my respect for them will actually go up a little. OT: That would be one of the reasons why I love OUAT's take on Ursula but I have problems taking her seriously as a villain. Except for being sassy and doing some minor assaults while tagging along with Cruella and Mal, so far we've mostly seen her being nice to people, including the man who actively screwed her over and put her life in jeopardy in the Enchanted Forest (looking at you, Rumple). Even Ruby and Archie – Archie! – have a bigger on screen body count than she does: where's the villain?

Well, that's the theme for this half season: What makes a hero and what makes a villain? So they used Ursula (and will probably use Cruella and Mal as well) to show that maybe villains aren't as villainous as they are made out to be, while using Snow and Charming to show that heroes aren't as heroic as they are made out to be.