Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-28162607-20170818082458/@comment-26967699-20170830223515

Aine1989 wrote: Yeah but they could have had a good plot for the mian character instead of one of the most heinous examples of whitewashing I have ever seen. Regina didn't do all those awful things, it was the Evil Queen! And anyway Snow and Emma should be grateful for the suffering she caused; it made them who they are!

I go back to my earlier point about how they could have gone down two alleys and they chose neither.

And she looked even worse considering that at the same time, you had Killian taking direct responsibility for his actions eg. Robert, Belle and Liam 2 (yes I know he fucked up a little with Robert but he got there in the end). You had him put his hand up and say "Yes I did that, it was not OK and I deserve to be punished/I will make up for it in any way I can" meanwhile Regina is running around blaming her own actions on a separate entity and acting like she never did anything wrong ("the horrible mother I could have been"=HORRIBLE MOTHER YOU WERE). This arc did Regina (and Lana as an actor for that matter) no favours. Look, no Regina fan or Regina or the writers or Lana herself think that all the horrible things was done by a SEPERATE entity, aka the Evil Queen. I know you don't like Regina, that's fine. But you keep telling things that are not true to any person I mentioned. No one thinks that. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. Why do you think Regina gave a 10 minute speech to Emma in 521? It's because she blames herself from the beginning (she likes blaming others generally. But her own actions, no). If you check Regina Mills' page in the wikia and read her quote, you'll understand what I mean.

The serum thing  was dumb, yes. But she did it because she does not want to revert to her old days, or maybe she simply wanted to cl ear her head. but she did not do it because she wanted another entity to blame. B ut I agree that Regina was weak at that point. She just didn't want to face her own fear and thought that ıf she uses the serum, she will not revert back. Everyone is making their own choices in their life. So as I said, I do think that it was dumb that she could think that she will lose the Evil Queen in her head forever if she uses the serum. So what, can't she revert back to her old days if she wants anytime and anywhere, even though she uses the serum? It was a mistake from the start.

But as I said, Regina DOES think that the actions she has made was all hers. Not another person.