Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-25926288-20151009191707

What positive qualities? XD (Kidding)

I think that it is either some ingenious sympathetic Zelena arc involving Regina or just awkward character regression. THe writers want Regina to be the sassy, "ends justify the means" hero, but it's not really working the way they thought. Zelena is becoming more sympathetic because what Zelena has been saying is relatively true. But, let me stop talking about Zelena, lol.

Regina slowly transitioned into good from the impulsive, magic abuser she was when she encountered not only Pan, but her own personal villain, Zelena. Regina defeated her and tried to be at least the hero for that day. Then, some time after that she got involved with the soap opera portioj of Once and Regina stayed reasonably calm, but she regressed into blaming people for her problems (aka the Book). Once, she got over that, Regina got everything she wanted and did so through some decent (asking Blue, OM, etc) and some nefarious (stealing Belle's heart, etc) ways. But the main issue is that, she can be the Machievellian anti-hero, but Snow and her posse commit the worst act of all time: Telling, not showing. They prolaim Regina is a hero, but they should never do that, because it devalues the word and that's not how that works. For the most part, Regina did save the town and group against some of the villainous foes, but Regina did it all for herself, not for anyone else (well, she did a few things for Snow in 4b and later 5a)

So, Regina hasn't really regressed as much as just added back the negative qualities and become some sort of whiny, hypocritical character. At least some see her this way....I don't give them any leeway, but it's really hard to watch Regina being called the hero and the Savior every episode and then have her do bad or rather hypocritical things.

Maybe the Darkness snuffed out some of the light, but it shouldn't have effected her brain. 4 seasons in and Regina is still blaming others for her mistake, still doing the "ends justify the means", and lack of self-awareness.