Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150413002300/@comment-24674051-20150413153127

SergeiBorokov1 wrote: My heart breaks for Regina, and although she made such progress with being good, I think that she's going to have no choice but to be the Evil Queen again. Season One Evil Queen would NOT LIKE the Wicked Witch of the West AT ALL, and at this point I think Regina has to find that evil witch within herself again to take her happiness back (like she did the first time she enacted the Dark Curse). It would be cool if Regina got her own villain council back together (the ones she was with in "The Thing You Love Most) to battle the Queens of Darkness and Wicked Witch. I'm interested to learn more about that council and who they were, as well as how Miss Ginger connects to the Blind Witch from "True North" since the name implies such. The writers have a lot of different material here to finish off this season and carry into Season 5.

In the pilot episode of the first season, Rumple mentioned that "the final battle will begin", and Cruella, Ursula, Maleficent, and Gold mentioned that they planned to start a war. We have a lot of major villains here, and now that Zelena isn't dead and wants the same thing as the Queens of Darkness, I'm wondering if she'll join them in place of Ursula? However, I have a feeling that Zelena and Maleficent won't like each other very much - Maleficent (as chosen by the Chernabog) is most evil out of the trio, and with Ursula gone, Zelena may be just as evil (if not more) than Maleficent. Plus, Maleficent and Regina have a complicated friendship, so how will Zelena react? Will Zelena prey on Maleficent's weakness: Lily? Interesting theory about Zelena preying on Lily to get to Mal. The only problem with that is that you force Mal to go to the side of Emma/Mal/Regina. Emma and Regina are friends, Regina and Mal are friends (or at least frenemies), and Emma and Lily have a friendship (which may be renewed by the end of the season). In any case, you get 3 of the most powerful witches in the area ganged together, and REALLY po'd. Zelena may be powerful, but she's already afraid of Emma, Regina knows now how to beat her, and I don't think Zelena holds up well to a mad Dragon.

Unfortunately, Zelena is much more clever (I would even go so far as to say wickedly clever), so I don't think she will go the Lily route.