Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151026005934/@comment-27138802-20151102112635

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Canonically, Robin and Regina knew each other for a year, fell in love during that year, got their memories erased, met again, fell in love (again!) over the course of a week or two, spent two more weeks having an illicit affair after Marilena showed up, spent 6 more weeks apart, then were reunited for another six weeks and now we're at the present day.

So by the time Regina shed that tear, she was probably with Robin longer than she'd ever been with Daniel. Regina and Robin didn't fall in love over that year. They showed no such thing. Regina knew Daniel likely as long as he was a stable boy there. Lana confirmed it during an interview. The reason they were so at odds during "A Curious Thing" was because they had pent-up sexual frustration and love that they didn't want to confirm for each other. Means nothing if we don't see more on show. The writers could have changed it at anytime.

Either way, their relationship was far longer than the two weeks that other user implied.

Relationship doesn't necessarily mean romantic. It's literally an association between two people. Enemies are a kind of negative relationship, are they not?

And Regina and Robin had a relationship that's over a year long. Started out as shaky acquaintances, became frenemies, then evolved into lovers.

Regina and Hood said that they didn't even like each other in the missing year. The main point is that, honestly, Robin doesn't know Regina at all. It is clear in the writing because its lazy. All the writers had to do was to announce implied in season 3 that Hood was Regina's soul mate and people already shipped with seeing any interaction between them or if it even make sense. They didn't build or write the relationship well because...honestly, people easily just swallowed that narrative and it has only been getting worse with its writing. Outlaw Queen hasn't been some long well developed relationship, it has been slapped on the show out of nowhere, it is not some grand epic romance, I find it hard to believe any man would want to be with his wife's killer. It is not surprising in season 5 that we STILL haven't seen a conversation between Robin and Regina about that because...they want to force that contrived relationship down the audience throats because of their own pride, though OQ overall has not been well received.

All I am saying that Regina and Hood do not have any genuine conversations since season 4, they don't really know each other, Regina is just not the same character we were introduced, that's my opinion.