Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180101191335/@comment-28162607-20180113151234

Speaking of Regina and 3B, a further 2 points:

1. Incerdibly jarring how in 3x12 Snow starts treating Regina like family because she stopped killing people for a week because they had a common goal. Even though Snow was there when she Regina admitted she does not regret abusing her. She seemed to have forgotten the past 30 years and gone for "let's hold hands and sing happy songs".

2. I feel like Regina's redemption would have been more bearable if they didn't try to make her out to be a fully fledged hero by the end of season 3. Because she went to most evil villain to best hero ever with very little character development.

Both of these are why her redemption does not work. It seems that by the start of 3B, everyone forgot how awful she was and gave her an unearned fresh start.