Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30084465-20180406111211/@comment-1916997-20180407063036

Applegirl wrote:

The feud between Aurora's family and Maleficent was implied to be that Maleficent, for some reason, has animosity towards Aurora's mother. The only hint was in "The Thing You Love Most" when Regina said Maleficent was bested by Briar Rose.

'''Mal also made a comment to Regina in Enter The Dragon, something along the lines of "you've lost someone too". I always thought that was suppost to indicate that Briar Rose had done something that caused Mal to lose someone she loved, thus the conflict between them. But yeah, they really should have explored this in 4B, or 5B, or 6.''' Yeah, the writers pretty much never gave clear reasoning for why Zelena got the scarecrow's brain but seemingly never used it afterwards? From the direction of the episode, it seems by the end that she lost some of her motivation. She was so paranoid about Hades using her but she also felt conflicted about entertaining the idea that she could be happy with him and throw away all the time spell business. '''I think it was implied at some point that Dorothy stopped Zelena from casting the time travel spell in Oz, or at least helped cause the spell to fail. Maybe she even got her banished to the EF, which is why Zelena is there in 3B.''' Answered in bold above.