Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26116863-20161101012324/@comment-25926288-20161101013511

Lol, wrong question. Remember that Regina spent about a decade trying to find Snow White, get her heart, or kill her and she failed many, many times. Even Cora mocked her in 5x12 when she pretty much did what Regina wanted to do in a day.

EQ is pretty much Id Regina (as in Id vs Ego vs Superego). Regina, throughout the slowly more comical EQ flashbacks, grew more....comical. So, she was typically a threat, decent at getting things done, but wasn't foreign with being thwarted. If you want to know plot-wise, it was season 4 when EQ went from the over-the-top troubled tyrant to the just over-the-top person.

EQ was petty much waiting for hyde to get squashed so she could be the villain. I guess the writers didn't want EQ to take away what little Hyde had left. I can respect that and it appears EQ is moving on from family squabbles. Those family squabbles were essentially for them to hit their character notes (which were good), but nothing else.

Remember, EQ always wanted to kill Snow...except she specifically avoided that thus far because--reasons!