Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4637931-20150514003534/@comment-25926288-20150514014636

Call it Once Logic. I may love Regina and Rumple and even pretty much all the rest of them too, but the forgiveness is higher than reality. The major point I hate is they literally take Tom Sawyer's brush and whitewash the characters into redemption. Don't believe me, look at what they literally did to Rumple's heart. That symbolizes that he is on the road to redemption (now if he goes all evil still then they earned my respect.) It's all villains in a sense and even sometimes the heores don't act or speak like real people. Which is I guess reasonable.

Regina (I don't care if they act like Regina is different from the Evil Queen, there are the same person) is a mass murdering, sex-slaver, hateful and narcissitic woman with a view that she's always the victim. Rumple is a metaphorical drug addict mafia boss for hundreds of years. Killian was a sex-hungry, woman bedding, pillaging pirate captain that was bent on revenge for hundreds of years. These people don't just up and change in a year and "Oh my goodness they are heroes!" Who in the world did they save and why? They all saved for selfish reasons, even Snow and David are selfish. Regina and Hook tried to kill Emma and now theri the best of friends! Emma was really be lonely because she doesn't need friends with such a past. The only consistent character I think is Rumple. Rumple views most of them as pests, Regina as a frenemy, Emma as something, Henry as something, and Hook as eternal enemy. But the others just spout hope and nonsense and the plot seems to attempt to force them to understand each other.

Snow being all understanding she was a bratty kid and her mother the same doesn't explain her killing Cora and doesn't excuse Regina for killing her father and making her life miserable. I can see it that Snow always wanted to accept Regina back, but then again Snow isn't the brightest bulb in the room.

The show is attempting to show hope and redemption even for the worst of villains in your life---it doesn't work like that, but whatever. I mean they even tried to teach a life lesson in Robin's episode saying as long as you steal for a friend then it's honorable.

The weird part is the isolation of certain characters. Regina isn't friends with Hook. Snow isn't either. None of them are friends with Belle (I laugh at whenever someone thinks they care about Belle, no one comforted her after Rumple's death and that awkwardness shown how little they interact.).