Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20140925181009/@comment-9241531-20141117194718

DarKingdomHearts wrote: I kinda think this episode confirms that The Sorcerer is also the author of the book. He knew that Emma was going to be the Savior/product of true love and wrote all of that into his book. And I guess he intended Regina to have a happy ending... but something must have happened.

maybe it was Maleficent's fault. maybe she wanted payback on Regina and convinced the Writer to give Regina the short end of the stick? that is, of course, if there is a writer and they're not writing fate themselves.