Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-11058666-20151016001018

CTrent29 wrote: ''Some ignore the whole Eggnapping thing because of the bad writing. (There was no foreshadowing of it whatsoever). And the writers never lift everyone up, but tear down the heroes to the villains' level.

Some think that Emma is a ball of sunshine with walls because even more confusing stuff. When they did the whole Emma's potential for darkness arc, they used improper wording and frankly don't seeem to understand the meaning of the word potential.''

What improper writing? The series has already shown that Emma is capable of corruption. She was already corrupted by the time she had arrived in Storybrooke for the first time. The yellow Volkswagen is a shining symbol of Emma's moral compass. Her failure to stop Snow from trying to kill Mulan is another. This series has already shown or hinted Snow and David's potential for bad mistakes, weakness and evil. It has also hinted Snow an David's hang ups about her own moral compass. Which is why I can understand why they had hang ups about Emma's moral compass.

Anyway, Regina's flaws is pointed out in this thread because this thread is about her.

Then why not start a thread about Emma's flaws? Or the flaws of characters other than Regina?

Your sentence doesn't make any sense. "Failure to stop so-and-so from killing so-and-so." usually means that the latter is dead. What are you even talking about, anyway? She loves her mother and would never want her to die. It's not like she stood there and watched Mulan beat her up. I think your love for Regina is making you see bad traits in other characters that aren't even there.

And stop saying that people who like Emma can't see her flaws. I'll name some flaws right now: She's a bad mother 'cause she thinks she has the right to just take Henry from the woman who raised him her whole life, his grandparents, and the other people that he loves in Storybrooke. She's extremely jaded and can barely stand to tell other people how she feels about them. She never smiles. She has quite the criminal record. Her logic is sometimes very flawed--she thought that 'cause Belle married Rumple, that automatically made him a good guy.

However, I think the list for Regina is much worse: She whines whenever things don't go her way. She's a huge hypocrite, telling people that they don't deserve second chances when she's had a billion second chances. She was emotionally abusive towards her son for 10 years. She raped a guy and never felt any remorse about it, and then later she killed him. She spent her life trying to murder Snow when she should've been focusing her energy on the woman who actually killed Daniel. She doesn't care about anyone but herself. The notion that she is a good is a lie that she tells to herself and to others. She continues to do bad things and somehow thinks that if she apologizes for them sometimes, that makes it all okay. I could go on forever, honestly, and the fact that I honestly could is the reason why I'm not so concerned with Emma's flaws.