Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-25926288-20151013123731

CTrent29 wrote: ''Are you seriously making Regina out to be a more moral person than Emma and Henry? Do you honestly think that mass-murder and some child lying are equally horrible? ''

I am too disgusted beyond words by this response. Why is it that whenever I criticize any of the Charmings - especially the holy duo of Emma and Henry - people have to use Regina's crimes as a means to dismiss my criticism?

No. I never said that Regina was better than Emma and Henry. . . except in one regard. Neither of them have ever really faced some of their questionable past actions. Otherwise, they are NOT worse than Regina.

Are you really that incapable of facing the fact that Emma and Henry are not perfect? Or that they are flawed? I sometimes feel that many fans of this show tend to view Emma in the same manner as Jane Austen fans view the Fanny Price from "MANSFIELD PARK". They're so busy trying to paint both characters as ideal or near ideal that they ignore the flaws of the two characters.

I rarely comment about Regina's flaws, because the show and the fans are constantly discussing them. I don't find this surprising, considering that she had started as the show's major villain. Yet, they also love discussing Hook's (and now Robin, Snow and Charming's) flaws. But when it comes to Henry and especially Emma, they won't do it. And I'm still wondering why. Well, I'll make a Emma thread, but Henry was largely just a plot device for much of the series and was pretty much annoying rather than an actual character, but he did have some weird turns.

I'll make one for each and then link it here.

But otherwise, I do tend to dislike hate trians because people are more likely to hate a character, yet ignore when the other character does the same. Regina and Hook are the two polarizing characters, Robin and etc are pretty wiredly used characters, Emma and Henry are sort of forgotten (plus, Emma isn't really doing character development right now).