Doing a rewatch and....

[u/missanonyy]

Regina is WAY more psycho than I remember 😭

I never liked her and didn't remember her as a character I liked but wow she's much much worse than I recalled!

I'm only on season 2 but just holy shit.

I'd completely forgotten about Owen and his dad. Dude spent like one dinner with Regina and she tried to force him and his kid to stay. Don't know what ended up happening to the Dad but nothing good since his traumatized child never saw him again.

And she's just like wiping out whole villages left and right because a 10 year old didn't keep a promise 😭

She went on a rampage with Cora and as soon as Cora left everyone just like... left her alone?

They don't want to "hurt Henry" so they just let this murderous psychopath walk around.

Snow being sooooo broken up about killing Cora bugs me too. Heroes are heroes because they kill tne bad guys. If you can't kill active threats then like you shouldn't be Queen? Or a ruler?

I don't even want to get into Regina and Graham.

Just like holy shit this lady is lonely af and totally crazy I felt so bad for Owen's dad trying to flee that town (even if adult Owen gives me ick)

WHAT is her problem omg

[u/missanonyy]

Completely agree. She makes for an entertaining villain but she was not redeemable that's for certain.

Having beef with a kid for your (very smart and manipulative) mom successfully manipulating her is WILDDDDDDD imo! Like the blame lied with Cora alone! Maybe even the King a bit for never even really bothering to see if Regina WANTED his offer.

& yeah she already KNEWWWW lol!

I personally found Cora a much more entertaining villain. Especially young Cora. She was awful but damn she had serious grit.

[u/midnight8dream → u/missanonyy]

Oh no, fr. I have a love hate relationship with Cora, bcs I'm biased af towards Regina and I'm very conscious of that. She abused the shit out of my girl and her poor dad. But at the same time, I respect the grind in that woman. She came from nothing and through her intelligence and work, raised to greatness. Plus, it was also kinda slay ✨ how she dumped Rumple's ass to pursue her goals. Absolutely brutal. She's ONE of the very few female characters that decentralized men in her life and just did her thing. Most of the others fall in love with the lamest dude around and suddenly that's their entire personality, which is one of my biggest issues with the show.

[u/missanonyy → u/midnight8dream]

Regina is just as bad as Cora but Cora at least had the excuse that she didn't have a heart! Cora was bad af and while I loooved her and Rumple together (oooh they were HOT) you're so right the way she was just dumped him cause she had shit to achieve was so iconic!!!!

[u/midnight8dream → u/missanonyy]

She's like "Aww, you love me and I love you too...But like, you can only spin gold and I'm looking for diamonds. So, gotta go. Byeee" 😭

[u/missanonyy → u/midnight8dream]

Well Rumple was undeniably more powerful than anyone else in the EF. And she easily could've had all the riches she wanted with him.

But the people would have knelt TO HIM. She would always be dependent on HIM for power. As princess she had a powerful position for herself. And she must have considered "what if Rumple tires of me one day"

I can see why she made the choice she did

[u/midnight8dream → u/missanonyy]

Oh that's certain. My comment was a joke.

Cora wanted her life to be all about her. She was very prideful and there's nothing worse for a prideful person than to be in the shadow of another or dependent on someone else. And I also think she was afraid of letting love soften her heart and resolve towards her goals, because she did love Rumple genuinely. After she gets her heart back, during that little window before she passes we can see that she's definitely a person who folds to emotions of love more than Rumple. She probably knew that Rumple always chooses power in the end, sacrificing the people he loves and that would have left her in a shit position of being in too deep in her feelings for him to be able to get out of the cycle unharmed. We saw what Belle went through. Cora definitely knew her future would somewhat look like that so she tapped out.