Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150420021238/@comment-26255666-20150427005614

Eskaver wrote: Snow had some sort of martyr complex or self-sacrificial streak that she won't let go. I think it all goes back to her mother's death. She could have just had someone else cast the curse and it'll all be fine, but she had to cast the curse and to sacrifice it all to do so. (Lol, the second time Daivid is near death around the curse.) I think Snow is quite smart, just that hero/ goodness complex thing always gets in the way of her making the most effective decision. If in the AU, we see dark Snow, I bet she'll be quite intelligent and capable. Plus, how it's portrayed the "heroes" are stupid and the "villains" are smart.

Side-Note: You'd think being all worried about her first baby, that she's worried about her second, but that's not the case. For all we know, Baby Neal could be the evilest thing alive! I mean it's like they contradict themselves.

Oh no! Our blank slate baby might become evil! We need to stop it!

Well, we just have our second blank slate baby and he'll be just fine. Um, what? They didn't even check or anything.

I think a big part of it had to do with the price one must pay to enact the curse. Could she have asked someone else to cast it? Yes but then that would mean she would have to ask them to kill (let alone give up) the one person in the world that they love more than anything. Regardless of whether Snow or Regina was right in their "feud" it wasn't meant to be other people's problems or consequences. Snow watched so many people die to protect her from the Evil Queen, I don't think she could bare to ask anyone else to give their life for a new big bad in Zelena.

I also think you made a great point about "villains" being portrayed as smarter or I'd even say more efficient than the "heroes". I think this is because of the fact that the "heroes" are burdened with so much conscience and guilt about every decision that they make whereas the "villains" tend to not care about collateral damage and therefore don't really need to think about their decisions beyond "Does this make ME happy/more successful?" (Whereas "heroes" ask: What are the possible consequences and who else will have to pay for this decision?)

I was wondering about why Snow and Charming weren't worried about Neal. Maybe being born in the real world makes them forget about any potential magical dangers. (Though I must say that they weren't worried about Emma until the incident with the Queens of Darkness and the tree when Maleficent persuaded Snow that her child must be evil.)

Would Regina still be a villain turned hero in an alternate universe? Would she become the savior that way? I kind of thought people like Regina and Hook are very iffy because they are heroes now.