Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26116863-20150216235747/@comment-25926288-20150227124723

I say that Regina's "change" is slowly occurring. Realistically speaking, she hasn't at all changed that much, just changed her internal locus. She changed from focusing on herself and her happiness; focusing on being good to please Henry; focusing on saving Henry using both good and a dash of bad; focusing on pixie-dust ordained Robin; actually doing the right thing at the expense of herself; blaming everything under the sun for her unhappiness. So she's on a loop of a rollercoaster, going in a circle but still progressing. I like how complex she is, but this author plot makes her seem ungrateful, compared to the others in their many trials. As stated on another thread, comparing Snow to Regina, they went through similar things, but Snow made it through a lot more and Regina has stopped part-way through, saying it's too hard and it's not fair. Snow has lived an most of her life with miserable events all over the place, and the second that Regina gets to one as a hero, she finds someone to blame. However, this is all within her character. In a Tv Guide article about season 4b, A&E say that Regina has an inability to be happy. The more troubling part (even though Regina is my favorite character) is how everyone is going along with her weirdly placed blame idea. Emma and Hook have changed the book and that meant they changed the past. Why would a book about the past help Regina change her future without changing the past? Nothing about this plan makes sense.