Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32390199-20131006194450/@comment-22525977-20131016200149

Empathnyte wrote:

I do find Blue harsh, but fair. If you look at her track record, she seems to help very few people such as Jimminey and Baelfire, and as mentioned by Johanna, you need a pure heart to receive Blue's help. I totally believe that Blue thought Regina was past the point at which she was worth helping/possibly never was worth helping, considering none of the fairies interfered when Regina was growing up under Cora's abuse.

I don't, however, think she came to that conclusion objectively, since the episode itself demonstrates that Regina still has some of the innocence and kindness we saw in "Stable Boy." If anything I think Blue's biggest flaw is a prediliction for quick judgements and then a resistance to changing those judgements later on as new information becomes available.

The point at which the "harsh, but fair" theory breaks down, I think, is her handling of Grumpy/Nova, wherein it was very clear that neither Grumpy nor Nova were particularly happy in their current situations and, in the grand scheme of things, one dwarf with his head in the clouds and one not-so-very-talented fairy clearing off to have adventures with each other wouldn't matter at all in terms of fairy dust production/distribution/whatever else fairies do, and yet Blue insisted that they break up and get back to work.

That's why I think she has an agenda. Looking at her actions from a standpoint of "she only helps the pure of heart" doesn't square with the way she treats Grumpy and Nova and even pre-Evil Queen Regina, nor does it fit with her handling of the wardrobe situation (wherein she put the selfish desire of one man over the well being of an entire world).

I kind of like the idea of faires as some manner of a religious group, with Blue as the highest authority but not actually "in charge"  because she's following whatever their scriptures are even though they might sometimes be in conflict with what she personally believes (which would explain the Gepetto situation)... And then they're nuns in Storybrooke, so it sort of fits.