Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25491743-20150810230525/@comment-27138802-20151117121331

Chameleon-Guy wrote: Ray Donovan wrote: Lola987 wrote: Why would Zelena allow Robin to be with Regina if she wanted her to be miserable? It makes no sense to me and I think the writers just thought about the whole Zelena twist in the middle of 4B and decided to add it. Because Christie Laing played Marian as Marian, until A&E wanted to bring back Zelena and retcon 3B after saying that they meant for Zelena to permanently die and just changed their minds 2 weeks later.

I don't know if they had planned that, Zelena's death was always confusing, the green smoke going into the portal and the other stuff. However the Writers often said they wanted to bring her back, and that she was likely to appear in season 4. A&E did stated that they wanted her back but they said this AFTER confirming that Zelena was truly dead.