The truth, as I know so well from my own periods of extreme emotional duress and trauma: your brain lashes out in any way it can to cope with said duress. It's not a mark against you as a person, it's your brain struggling to process and find some way to fix whatever is causing you the problem -- often resulting in the kind of crazy shit that Regina is clearly experiencing. Because she can't allow herself to focus it on the king (too powerful and the symbol of what she's trying to escape) or Daniel (dead, stolen from her, and too painful to even think about anyway) or her mother, god forbid, because of so many reasons that she still doesn't deal with it even if she gets rid of the woman in the end of the episode itself -- Cora is gone, not forgotten and never truly faced.
TRUTH.
Not an excuse but only an idiot looks at it in such black and white terms.
Also, how disturbed Regina is at the thoughts in her own head says some deep, and flattering, things about who Regina is and who she wants to be.
the fandom hate towards her despite all of the evidence of her humanity while rumples is excused when clearly shown to be a greedy, self-obsessed coward even before he's "cursed" with the power of the dark one. so. yeah. fandom.
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and yes, exactly - we saw no such hysteria or fear or desperation to not give into her dark side from ANY other baddie so far and yet... everybody else is acceptable to receive forgiveness but not her.
Ugh, I know. I just want Regina to find happiness and she has such a brilliant set-up for an arc where she finds that... but despite the last couple of episodes, I'm still afraid... actually, I find like she will struggle and strive and achieve something bittersweet, and Rumpelstiltskin will choose power over making a difficult choice over and over again, and then live happily ever after with Belle.
then he may have already been fully turned off of the magic and beauty and power of love way before the magic settled into him.
I'm digging this show more and more because it isn't black and white at all. And the thing about that scene--and it is a really interesting thing to portray, Milah leaving--is that when she asks him about at least leaving and giving her a mental rest from the consequences of his actions--he used their child against her and after she's in bed, he just kind of ....smiles.
Because he won.
It was a mental, very clearly emotional tool, because he didn't want to even go that far for her. So I think that's what sealed it, even though her own actions are her own. In that case, it was just....a great way to look at him. I like the show for that, in all his rationalizations.
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TRUTH.
Not an excuse but only an idiot looks at it in such black and white terms.
Also, how disturbed Regina is at the thoughts in her own head says some deep, and flattering, things about who Regina is and who she wants to be.
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and yes, exactly - we saw no such hysteria or fear or desperation to not give into her dark side from ANY other baddie so far and yet... everybody else is acceptable to receive forgiveness but not her.
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I'm digging this show more and more because it isn't black and white at all. And the thing about that scene--and it is a really interesting thing to portray, Milah leaving--is that when she asks him about at least leaving and giving her a mental rest from the consequences of his actions--he used their child against her and after she's in bed, he just kind of ....smiles.
Because he won.
It was a mental, very clearly emotional tool, because he didn't want to even go that far for her. So I think that's what sealed it, even though her own actions are her own. In that case, it was just....a great way to look at him. I like the show for that, in all his rationalizations.
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