Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.162.224.171-20130311010520/@comment-4993393-20130312192104

Snow's actions is a pretty good ethical dilemma situation. Think about it. Cora was about to kill a defenseless man in cold blood. If a passerby with a gun happened to come on the scene and he or she shot her, only a pacifist would say that was wrong. She was an eminant threat, not just a future threat. Indeed, there really was no other way they had to stop Cora. I think if that's all there was to it, there wouldn't be much controversy.

On the other hand, MM does have a personal grudge so the line between her doing for personal reasons and ethical reasons is blurred to say the least. There was a reason Rumple gave her the candle and not Emma or David.

Also, MM did manipulate Regina into killing her own mother. That makes it worse.

It's pretty gutsy of the producers to do this. I hope it works out. I'm not betting against them.