Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20140927224120/@comment-5106672-20140929115527

I also feel there's something off with Marion's (the real?) version vs Robin's, but for someone to be sure that Emma would go back at that point in time, end up captured and held in the same dungenon as Marion, and ultimately rescue her… well, it's unlikely. Rumple didn't seem to have seen it coming at all, despite being the most gifted future seer in the Enchanted Forest. So I don't know how it would be feasible.

Anyways, my love and respect for Regina gained a whole new level when she killed the snow monster to save Marion. While still prone to drastic methods to get her way (i.e. Sidney), she still does the right thing because it is the right thing to do, period. No one would have blamed her or known at all she went away leaving Marion to die.