Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20141215234519/@comment-1894786-20150312025831

Kncooper wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: The reason we were able to see Regina, Emma, and Hook as themselves was because we were following those character's perspective. When we saw Tom Ellis as Robin Hood, we weren't following him, we were following Belle. So it actually makes sense. i agree. Remember when Regina was disguised as that old woman around Jefferson? From his point of view she was the old hag selling the rabbit, but when she talked to the magic mirror we saw her real face. The POV idea makes a lot of sense.

A glamour spell is possibly a particular type of shapeshifting. (like how polyjuice in hp makes you look like other people, but animagi turn into animals, both shape shift.) That's right, Regina was the old hag from the original Snow White fairy tale in Hat Trick! I always forget that. LOL You'd think that'd be a worthy trivia point in her character page.

But I agree with this idea, it's only the point of view. Because we were following Snow in The Queen Is Dead, and we didn't figure out it was Cora until the focus shifted to her (and she undid the spell).