Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4839682-20140819182912/@comment-24386552-20141025005618

I agree. Regina tries extremely hard to not give in to her dark tendencies. Now that she has stuff to lose. In 1.18, 2.02, 2.05, 2.10, 2.20, and 3.03, she has lost something (In her life as the Evil Queen) and after all those things are gone... She felt no need to get them back and had no sympathy for those she destroyed. She has tried hard and in S2 and a little of S3 some of the so-called "good guys" didn't make it easy on her. 2.10, the prime example. And when Cora succeeded in ruining her daughter, Regina decided that trying to be good was too much work and sided with her Mom. When her Mom died, and her son convinced her to fight for them both, everything turned around. As for Gold, his redemption was in 3.11. Otherwise, he hasn't done much for his redemption.