Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160131095607/@comment-25926288-20160131151557

I think it's a matter of perspective.

I think the "heroes" are brought down to show the grey morality, which would be fine if the show didn't use black anmd white morality terms like hero, light, dark and villain.

The "villains" are contigent "heroes". I've always stated that Regina, Hook, and Rumple's "goodness" was always on a thin string as long as they get what they want. However, Rumple is the only one to acknowledge his actions and is painted like a bad guy for the most part. However, Rumple is partially right. I know, I know, that he's a jerk, but the heroes forgave him after trying to kill them and do all sorts of nasty things, so why should he be good when the good people are weak, weak people and Rumple's greatest issue is being perceived as weak.

Anyhow, I think it's due to that grey morality in a black and white world that hurts Once more often than not. Emma wants to paint it as grey, as she is the real world person, but everyone else paints things as black and white.

The immoral standard also comes from the willingness of the heroes to forgive '''Everything. '''There's a good lesson on forgiveness, but it gets ridiculous in the narrative sense.

Snow White countlessly let Regina pass on by without delivering justice and then after the 1051st time, Regina changes. But part of the issue is that noone should be that lenient and when Snow tried to stand up and simply convict Regina, Emma disagreed with her in the episode that kept saying that after 1000 tries Regina will never change.

Then, Regina currently gets to parade about as season 5a has shown, everyone is forgiven even if it is a day later. But it's not just Regina. Hook is forgiven and Emma places Hook's faults on Rumple. Regina does the same thing. All the while, Rumple accepts that hes just a terrible person.