Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170327005929/@comment-31564770-20170329092437

Ok guys, this whole Serum Queen is/isn't Regina's sister thing is a great topic for discussion, but this is a thread for the episode so I think we should get back to that. Personally, even if I disagree with Michu, we can't try to force him to change his mind. We've presented our evidence, that's that, and if Michu wants to make that big a change on the wiki, correct me if I'm wrong, but that requires consensus first. Thats all I'm going to say, and now I think we should be done talking about it or take it to its own thread.

So, back to Page 23:

Given how open-ended that ending for Serum Queen is, I feel like we'll see her again at least once to see how she's getting on. Even though I want them to recombine I think it unlikely at this point. The opportunity for recombination was during the fight and they didn't do it, so unless the writers make another opportunity it isn't gonna happen. However, I foresee more WR shenanigans in our future, because a) that realm is super underdeveloped and they just sent a character who was Big Bad for half a season as well as a portion of a main character there to live out the rest of her days and b) everyone in the WR wants someone who looks exactly like Serum Queen (Regina) dead for murdering the King and Queen, and the legacy of the WR EQ's reign of evil remains as we saw in 6x11 when everyone freaked out when Regina walked in the tavern. There's also the fact that the writers clearly had a field day creating older/alternate versions of the mains (ex old Hook) and I really don't think they would just create an entire alternate world with fun alternate characters just to toss it away after 4 episodes. Yes, yes they kinda did that in the s4 finale with Isaac's alternate reality, but they had an excuse there in that Isaac's world was inherently not real, never was real, and really just served as the climax of that arc. In the WR's case, it appears to now be a real place that's permanent and is a tangible realm. The apprentice's wand could access it, and that transports between worlds. If the WR wasn't a real world that couldn't have happened. Furthermore, if the WR was like Isaac's world, it would've disappeared when Emma left, as it was never real to begin with and when its real "anchor" left it should've faded from existence. Anyways, my point is, I now strongly suspect we are going back to the WR somehow and that we will see Serum Queen again. However, if you have watched the videos of the Vancouver con with Lana's panel, someone asked how it was to play both characters in the same scene. Lana replied that it was really cool, but time consuming. She spoke in past tense. That means that Serum Queen is gone by the end of the season. That leaves several possibilities:

1) Serum Queen is never coming back and they've totally abandoned the underdeveloped WR. This is my least favorite.

2) We meet Serum Queen again, but Regina never sees her or only sees her once or twice and that time is coming very soon. I'd enjoy this. I wanna know how Serum Queen's getting on. If this happens, though, and Serum Queen is fully consolidated as her own person forever, there's one bit of closure I need- Serum Queen needs a name. They can't just call her the EQ forever, if she stays in WR people would freak out if she was called that, and also giving her her own name would finalize their split and I could move on then.

3) Serum Queen and Regina meet again and recombine. Though this would be my favorite if done right, it has the potential to be totally botched by the circumstances of their meeting. If Serum Queen and Regina meet again due to her fresh start blowing up in her face, I'll be really sad. If that happens, then what actually was the point of that whole message that everyone is redeemable, even the darkest souls can find happiness with love? That's part of why I'm upset that they sent Serum Queen to the WR actually. The WR wants her dead and there's so much that could go wrong it's practically screaming that something will. So, if Serum Queen and Regina meet under circumstances of Serum Queen's happy ending getting nuked, then they recombine, I'll have gotten what I wanted but I won't be happy about it because they ruined the message of 6x14. If on the other hand they meet totally by coincidence and somehow get to recombination from there I'll be quite happy.

Overall, I see #2 as the most likely. What do you think?