Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20160301190120/@comment-5899967-20160503110015

JennaMae wrote: So I guess this is going to be my theory: After losing Robin, Regina ponders going evil again because she finds that heroism doesn't guarantee a happy ending, so why not? Henry gets mad, runs away, but after they find him and talk,  Henry realizes that destroying magic is not a good and  Regina decides that her relationship with her son/the rest of the squad is more important, so she forgoes going evil. However, after Regina and Henry encounter "Jacob" (Jekyll/Hyde) in SB, he will slip her the potion and surprise - she goes evil anyway! -cliffhanger going into season 6- Except in season 4 Regina realised her happy ending is not Robin, it's being accepted in the world (I think). She has Henry, she has her sister, friends. Emma loses plenty of loved ones and she doesn't go evil.

I don't know how I feel about this plot rehash, usually people don't like it when characters do back and forth (ex. Rumple is dark again, Hook is evil again for a couple of episodes), and of course Henry wanting to destroy magic, which happened seasons ago. Maybe that "mental hospital arc" wasn't such a bad idea after all.