There are characters on "Once Upon a Time" that I love and even more that I hate. I love Rumpelstiltskin and Belle. Emma is usually one of my favorites when she is not acting like an idiot. Snow can be really annoying and self-righteous, which I hate. Charming annoys the spit out of me with his "I am your leader and I know what's best for you!" Jack Sheppard-like qualities. Henry is an annoying kid who I don't care for. Hook hits women and is a Jack Sparrow knockoff without any of Jack's charm or appeal. And then there is Regina. The one I hate the most.
Regina, like Rumple, is a complicated villain. She has reasons for doing bad things, but she never seems to learn anything to actually become a better person. Once upon a time, she had a really crappy (literally) heartless mother who killed her boyfriend. Instead of blaming her mother, she blamed Snow, who was a little girl at the time. It became her mission in life to destroy Snow. It is all very tragic, because the two liked each other at first. She chased her down for years with no success. She decided to enact the curse, pulling everyone from the Enchanted Forest to Storybrooke, Maine. I never understood this. Is Regina's idea of paradise living in a small town with terrible winters and having to see your mortal enemy every day? Why didn't she just stab Snow with a letter opener?
In Storybrooke, Regina was the town's feared mayor. She had no magic, but she also had no one to talk to. See, when you kill a whole bunch of people, you don't become very popular. Her only friend in her old land was Maleficent and that didn't work out so well. (And how creepy was it that old Mal keeps regenerating in the pit under the library. Can't that woman get some peace?) Her only romance was with Sheriff Graham who was only with her because Regina was able to control him by removing his heart. Regina had adopted Henry as a baby and even he wasn't very fond of her.
You almost want to feel sorry for Regina. Crappy childhood. Dead boyfriend. Married to a king she didn't love. Friendless. You know what? I don't feel sorry for her. At all. As much as I hate Hook, she really could have used him as an ally. And what did she do? Leave him to fight Maleficent until he died. Only Hook somehow escaped. Hook even took her magic. It was awesome! You see, Regina has run out of chances. She can't be good. She is a villain through and through.
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