Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-11058666-20150901033946/@comment-1916997-20150919004218

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: No, that's not what I said. I said Meleficent did similar evil things to a family, but once something bad happened to her--are we suppose to feel sorry for her over her victims? Maleficent "took" Aurora away from Briar Rose by cursing her to a fate worse than death, attacked Briar Rose and Stefan during their lives and cursed Briar Rose.

Does she get a passed for taking someone's child into a sleeping curse and making people niserable and randomly killing people because two people took her child from her and lost it accidentally?

Just playing a defense on both sides. I feel bad for Maleficent, but she did spend her life making other people miserable. When she became miserable is she forgiven of her crimes? Nope, not in my book. However, I still feel sorry for her. This argument is a hard one to make until we know why Mal cursed Briar Rose. From the dialog in Enter the Dragon, it sounded like Briar Rose had somehow caused the death of someone Mal loved. Basically, until we see what happened in backstory we really don't know if what Mal did to Briar Rose was really a crime against her at all. DA here, cursing someone and messing with their family forever is totally justified for a crime. Now for me, it just seems that Briar Rose did nothing to her since we only see her with Stefan......Hope for a backstory on her, but she made it seem to me like Mal was just being her casually evil self. Mal literally said to Regina "so you've lost someone too" or something to that effect. I'm 99.9% sure Briar Rose isn't just some poor random princess Mal targeted. Briar Rose may feel justified with what she did, or maybe it was an accident (like Snow telling Cora about Daniel and Regina), but something happened that Mal felt cursing Briar Rose was an okay punishment.