Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150804233505/@comment-25926288-20150814122333

Well, before the Regina hate train comes rolling in, I want to excuse it off as poor writing and character development that every one has suffered from. (And yes, I sort of hate any charater hate train, because trains don't belong in Storybrooke)

I know there are people that hate Regina's stuff, but I'd say that it is in character for her to blame others. It's pretty much the source of most of her problems. The only problem with this is that they wrote every character poorly to create the 4a and 4b plot arc.

Let's look back at wonderful 3a, Regina always had questionable "get the job done whatever the means" mentality. It was cool and perfectly fine. People opposed, sometimes it worked and other times it didn't. But then after that weird things occured aka poor character development. Regina proclaimed that she was a hero (which I believe that she would never do). Like 3a and even 3b, she had self-awareness and then that went pretty much out the window when enabling Robin came into the picture.

I think it's because the writers want the "end justifies the means" Regina back as well as the snark, but it doesn't work to the degree that they have her at while also redeeming herself. Regina taking Belle's heart and this type of approach is "totally her", but then they have her and everyon e around her screaming "Regina's a hero and can do no wrong!"

Hook faces a similar problem. In the finale, Hook was like "I trapped this old man in the hat. I didn't mean too." And emma's like "Rumple made you do it. It's alright". But as anyone recall, Hook put himself in that situation and Hook had his heart and could have done anything he pleased. You can't have him doubt himself and then have Emma keep claiming "He's a hero" every two seconds. This is pretty much the problem with every ship because they always have a "Belle--His heart is true, even if he tried to kill many people a day ago" that washes all their sins away.

Chamring doing something evil or vicious like that and stuff was clearly out of character and makes little sense rewatching the seasons.

But this thread is about -THE BIGGEST VICTIM......and Marian