Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20141215234519/@comment-1916997-20150227024148

Eskaver wrote:

The Red-Orange-Fuschia-Queen wrote: I wouldn't blame Regina. Paternal love and romantic love are two different things. Unlike Rumple, I would say Regina's wish to find happiness through both kinds of love is more innocent. And I believe if Regina never meet Robin Hood, she would be okay with just having Henry, but in this case she did meet her true love, and it was taken from her (again). I know I would be pissed too, no matter how much love I receive from my child and friends. I know. I'm not blaming Regina. But by that logic, Rumple wouldn't have his happy ending regardless because he lost his son. I'm saying that the writers are portraying that you need to have both for some sort of happiness. The only one we saw have a confirmed happy ending was Ingrid, and how did she get it: her sacrifice and death. Regina can be upset that Robin's gone but she's saying that her happiness with Henry is not enough and she needs to change stuff in order to be truly happy. Rumple is upset that Bae is gone, his one true motivation is gone. Now, he saying that Belle is not enough and that he has to change things in order to be happy. This makes Regina (moreso than Rumple because a loved one died and Robin's still alive) seem impatient and incredibly self-centered and spoiled. Snow and David has a large period of miserable and unhappy events and still made it through. Now that Regina has come to her first or second event, she gives up and blames a book for it. If Snow made it, why can't Regina? It makes her seem horrible, unless she ends up learning something. It makes the rest of the supporters of OM, Emma, Henry, and possinbly Snow, look horrible because they know it doesn't work that way. Snow lost David countless times. Snow lost her parents. Snow has lost her child. Everything Regina lost, but she didn't cry foul at an unknown person (author) about her problems. Well, in some ways that's just true of people in general. They are never satisfied and always want more. Snow was not satisfied when she had David and Emma, she wanted another baby. Henry was not satisfied when he had Regina, he wanted his birth mother. So Regina is acting no more selfish than anyone else on the show. And really, wanting a lover and a child is not a ridiculous ask. Especially coming from the woman who wanted to control a whole kingdom and get revenge on everybody by taking away their happy endings. And besides all that, I don't think the creators are saying you must have a lover and a child to be happy, but for Regina, this is what she must have to be happy. Happiness is different for everybody.