Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180302022146/@comment-1826156-20180304204935

It's kind of disturbing, to be honest, that Adam made those remarks. He obviously doesn't see what happened to Graham as any kind of coersion. Which explains a lot about other things in the show. It would have been far less disturbing if he'd just admitted that yes, Regina was awful. She did it from a dark, lonely place, but she did it.

She stole his heart, threatened to kill him after trying to force him to commit murder, had him forcefully dragged to her chambers....unless there was a lot of winking when their backs were shown to the camera implying they were already into some kinks, I'd say yes he was forced and that equals rape.

Let's say she didn't use his heart for that and that she even fell in love with him. He didn't love her, he didn't know why he kept going back to her other than she had power over everyone in SB. In Storybrooke I don't think she was directly controlling him to have sex, but he was definitely not using freewill. If being cursed as a sleezy sherrif who will have sex with the mayor when she wants (even though he hated her in EF) isn't being forced, I don't know.

As for those saying curses can't be applied to real life, that's also wrong. Of course we know curses like that aren't going to happen (I hope) but that doesn't change the immorality of it. I am a fan of the show and will defend it where it needs defending and I will accept that there are evil people who do evil things and get redeemed...but I draw the line at become an apologist for it being okay because "of reasons".

By all means, show violence and death all you want in your story, the characters are interesting and impactful because of how far they've gone... just don't think those excuses of how "he had free will" will work for me when everything about that relationship was abuse. Regina hurting doesn't make it okay. Him saying yes when he's basically drugged doesn't make it okay.

To be clear, I do think we're being a little too serious, seeing as it's fiction, but that's what this thread is about. It's the fact that some people get free passes that irks me. Redemption is fine. Everyone deserves it. Pretending something never happened is not.