Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27079851-20171120082917/@comment-25926288-20171121111032

Chameleon-Guy wrote: I never considered it rape until recently, yes it's that thing, they should really stop doing this shit, I don't know why they keep doing it honestly. But yeah, it does show how evil Gothel is, so IF they keep her evil and don't redeem her, I could sorta accept this. The issue with that is less about Gothel being "evil", but actual acknowledgement and justice taking place.

Ex. With Graham, the writers tried to give a convoluted reason to explain how despite Regina's having his heart, the relationship was voluntary and that despite Regina casting his cursed personality that he had free will. The egregious in-show part was that Graham was murdered and it was never discussed ever again.

Another example could easily be that Regina chose to start a relationship with a guy whose wife she executed (as far as she knew)  and she never once told him that. Sure Zelena later said that she did it, but Regina never once during those several weeks told Robin. Let's not get into the Zelena-Robin thing.

So, yeah, the issue is more of acknowledgement and justice. Plus, they shouldn't play around with issues if they don't do adequate nuance.

Ex. Briefly, Zelena and Robin.

Regina acknowledged that it was a vile thing (though Robin ever gave Regina permission to speak on his behalf) and while it was fine to have Zelena partly sympathetic, Zelena soon got access to her child, through Regina pressuring Robin, and then Robin was killed (in an awful way as they actually annihilated him beyond hope of the afterlife). Just the optics alone seems in poor taste.