Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26901329-20150730140444/@comment-26159109-20151106210255

CTrent29 wrote: '' If you actually watch the show, you would see all of season 4 was Regina trying to get Robin and screw Marian out of her happiness. Remember, Regina wanted to find the Author to change the book, so Regina gets Robin and not Marian. That was the whole whole plan, until it was revealed that Marian was not actually Marian. '' I think you need to watch Season 4 again. . . seriously. Or else you're allowing your dislike of Regina to blind you. Despite her desire to find the Author and get a happy ending, Regina spent most of the first half of Season 4 trying to a) resign herself to Robin and "Marian" resuming their marriage; and b) find something that would break the spell cast by Ingrid. The only time she gave in to selfishness is when she and Robin had their one night stand inside her crypt in "The Snow Queen". Neither of them should have done that, especially when they believed "Marian" was still alive. Afterwards, she was surprised that "Marian" had decided to give up Robin. But in the end, she told Robin that they had to separate so that he could take care of both Roland and "Marian" in New York, after the latter started to "succumb" to Ingrid's spell again.

As for the situation with Regina and Belle. . . I'm confused. At first, I thought the pair had conspired to use Belle's heart to get Rumpel to cooperate with Regina's plan to save Robin from Zelena. But when Rumpel and Will got hold of Belle's heart, I thought Regina had taken it without the other woman's consent. But after the Season 5 premiere, Belle said nothing about her heart. More puzzling is the fact that she and Regina seemed to be very friendly.

I have come to two conclusions - either Regina had taken Belle's heart with the latter's consent. . . or, Kitsis and Horowitz dropped the ball and allowed Regina to get away with the deed. This would not be surprising. The show has allowed the main characters to get away with a lot of crap. However, considering how most of you feel about Regina, it's possible that you believe the latter. As for me. . . I think Horowitz and Kitsis need to clear this matter. In fact, they need to clear a good number of other matter from the past seasons. Their solution is that Belle simply doesn't remember. They want to eat the cake and leave it whole regarding Regina, so they have her do terrible things and then just ignore them.