Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20170618042330/@comment-25926288-20170909230853

Aine1989 wrote: So, what am I supposed to get from, say, Robin being forced by his girlfriend to trust his rapist and then getting killed? That is the writers saying "the rapist's feelings are more important than the victim". How is that hopeful? How can that be "interpreted differently"?

This is just one example and I used it since it is the least debatable one. It can be interpreted as they showed Regina and Robin have conflict. I'm a middle ground sort of person. You think they didn't address it, but they did show conflict within the characters, but the issue isn't actually about addressing it in a bad way, but in a poor way. The issue was time to breathe, which is a show problem being the focus on plot over characters.

Another way of putting it:

You see it as Robin being put in a bad position and then dying. Others see it as Robin had a problem and he unfortunately died.

That's not wrong but yours and the other perspective sees only a part of what happened. It is more like a combination of both.

Robin was put in a bad postion. It caused a rift between Robin and Regina, briefly, before he died, unfortunately.

The issue wasn't it sent a bad message, but that it sent a good message, but poorly (or less effectively that they intended).