Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20180519054612/@comment-29289194-20180520153548

Eskaver wrote: I don’t agree with the perspective given here. When you have me defend the writers, I think you’ve gone too far.

Regina last did something vaguely evil like 15 years ago (in her time). You, guys, are acting like she hasn’t done anything good since.

At this rate, you wouldn’t want a former drug addict to talk about “Saying no to drugs” because he/she is a hypocrite and might have backsliden a few years back.

The writers are clearly trying to show that there’s hope. I know, it probably won’t get through to you, but:

Regina clearly says that if she has to die, then she was going to let it happen.

Oh so, Wish Henry should have killed her and been a miserable old, hermit forever. Regina helped him see he was doing the wrong thing and they bonded over unknown time.

The writers didn’t do the best ever, but it’s clear that Regina doesn’t get a pass on everything.

You can not compare Regina's choices with a former drug addict, when the latter would suffer from an illness which unfortunately impacts many people and they need care and help to get better. Of course they would never be a hypocrite if they advised people later in life to say no to drugs.

Regina was a dictator who killed thousands of people including entire villages of men, women and children. Time will never change that. 15 years don't go by and everyone thinks "oh well, the murderer killed them 15 years ago. It's not relevant now. Time to forget about it". It's not a vague event, a memory which fades away. It's plain, heartless and thoughtless murder, which many years later Regina tried to make out was kind of okay because she assumed those people weren't real.

And she says it in an "apology" to a victim. It's kind of an odd apology where she excuses the fact that she murdered two people, and then uses it to make her look by "saving him" from killing. Do you not see how manipulative that became? And now he loves her that much, he calls her mum.

Regina's a hypocrite who says in one breath, she has changed and then says contradictory things and inevitably does the same old wrong things. Every apology she makes, she tries to include the things she went through and the things she suffered.

Everything good she does, she does to gain Henry's love or the love of the people. I can only think of one thing that was purely not selfish, but then she's rewarded with the one thing she was giving up in the first place.

Regina eventually wins, every single time. Anyone capable of what she's done, and kind of continues to do every now and then, belongs in one place - jail.