Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171007005904/@comment-32569754-20171008033206

LadyTremaine wrote: About the episode itself, i felt like Regina, Hook (or whoever he is) and Rumple are being only this season's background. I feel like the center will be Henry and Cinderella. For Regina, that would go against a lot of the stuff A&E said in some of their interviews. From what they said it sounds like Regina is not just a "background character". Eddy even went so far in one of the interviews as to say that Regina "plays a huge part" in this season. And that "Regina fans have nothing to worry about." "She's front and center, as always."

I'll try to find those interviews again and post up the links if I do. I think it was interviews with EW if I remember correctly. Though it was a while back, so I might need to do some digging to find them.

I also remember A&E saying that they are excited to explore what Regina and Henry's relationship is going to be like, now that he is all grown up. So I really don't think that Regina is just simply a "background character" this season. Remember, the first episode of season 7 HAD to focus on introducing the new characters. The first order of business was to get that out of the way.