Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25850402-20160517134822/@comment-25926288-20160517224124

Gpod Joe wrote: Copper5 wrote: I'm actually not sure how I feel about it. Zelena was my absolute favorite villain on the show so it's going to be hard for me to see her have forced positive interactions with characters.

The fact that the other characters are so willing to accept Zelena is also very bizarre to me. Regina aside, everyone else has absolutely no reason to forgive Zelena. Did the writes forget that she indirectly killed Neal? Attempted to kidnap/murder Snow and Charming's baby? Murdered Marian without any remorse? Basically raped Robin Hood?

It's just so baffling that the show is basically willing to say "Well she's good now. Everything else is in the past." It's just not a very good representation of how people interact in real life. I would have actually liked for the show to send the message with Zelena that sometimes even when you decide to do good, your current actions don't justify your behavior from the past and doesn't automatically guarantee your forgiven for them either. Yeah, and I think it's not fair, since it took Regina around one and a half season for her to get the good guy's trust, yet for Zelena it's only a matter of episodes. It would make sense if the other characters would still be mistrusting of her and only Regina is the one who believed in her due to their childhood memories given back to them The issue with that is besides random retcon, that memory should make Zelena hate Cora and Regina more and it doesn't make Regina trust Zelena as that flashback was simply, "You met, she helped and then I shipped her baclk to her abusive father."