Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32390199-20131006194450/@comment-22525977-20131016165742

SO what I want to know is why Blue would help Bae (who is the Dark One's son) but not Regina (who has no support network and whom Rumpel is deliberately breaking down and manipulating), especially if this takes place before the flashback events of "The Doctor," wherein Regina takes her first active step towards dark magic (and I think it is prior to "The Doctor," because the costumers have been very deliberate about the change between Regina and the Evil Queen, and what Regina wore in this episode was very much the "sweet innocent Regina" getup, plus she was reluctant to pursue Rumpel's tutelage rather than eager as she was at the end of "The Doctor").

What the episode showed us basically was Regina being miserable and desperate but also not the murderer she becomes in "The Doctor", Tink trying her best to help with so much determination that she risked her own livelihood to do so, and Blue stepping in to first tell her that she absolutely cannot help Regina because there's no hope and then, when that doesn't work, stripping Tink of her wings and removing the one support Regina had at that point.

Regina's big problem in this episode was that she'd had so little happiness in her life and then that was ripped from her so all she had left was her anger, and she was terrified of letting that go because she doesn't know what will be left, but at that point I think it's pretty clear that what Tink was doing for her could and did help, and had Blue not interfered it's entirely possible things would have gone differently—Tink doesn't seem the type to just give up, especially since she quite correctly reasoned out what Regina's problem was.

TL;DR Blue is not as altruistic as she wants people to think, I don't think. Which is okay. I'm on board with manipulative agenda-wielding fairies.