Only one poster, that I’ve seen has said that Regina can’t be redeemed. In real life, she’d be in jail for the rest of her life; but this is a tv show. A well-written redemptive arc could certainly be believable for her. We see that from the beginning, Regina was a good (albeit somewhat weak) person, and that over the course of her life she has become something else in a large part due to the manipulations of Cora and Rumple. While they did manipulate her, Regina made her own decisions and she has the ultimate responsibility for her actions. We have also seen that the original Regina still exists within her. I never trusted her “reforming” earlier this season because it was pretty clear that her main motivation was external (Henry) and she had little internal (if any) motivation to do so. Also, there was an off-putting sense of entitlement as if she believed that everyone was supposed to automatically forgive her and forget all of the terrible things that she’d done to them. In Regina’s true redemptive arc, I hope to see some introspection and understanding of what she’s done and how far she’s turned fro the person that she used to and wanted to be. Then, we can see her actively making amends and slowly earning the trust of others around her (and not blaming others for their lack of trust in her).