Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32390199-20131006194450/@comment-5305135-20131014215042

I agree, it doesn't look good BUT BF isn't supposed to be neutral, she's meant to be a force of good. She could have done a lot of good taking the Dark One's apprentice and steering her into the light.

Pinocchio was given a second chance (as August obviously) and only because he redeemed himself for all the bad things he had done in time. And at that point the worse thing Regina had done (I think) was rip Trish's heart out (also an apprentice of TDO) so essentially could have prevented future death and push Cora through a looking glass into Wonderland, kind of demonstrating that she wanted to be free of her evil Mother's tyranny. At this moment, a Fairy Godmother could have intervened before TDO did.