@KFChimera wrote:
Snow says to disguised Regina that in her mind the Queen was in too much pain and looking for someone to blame. The she sees the bodies and changes her mind. Yet we know she changes her mind back again at the scene in the Cricket Game flashback, where Regina was about to be executed.
So now I wonder this–what made her change her mind back? What good did she see in Regina after the village slaughter?
I think Snow was acting in the passion of the moment when she expressed her horror and anger over the atrocity that Regina had just commited. She had every reason and right to feel sick at the slaughter.
Over time when her initial anger had a chance to cool, I think Snow realized that Regina had been following Snow with every opportunity to plant the sword that Snow had given Regina into Snow’s back… but something had stopped her. For a brief while, Snow had connected with the woman that Regina once was. She’d have realized that the woman Snow had once loved like a mother was actually still in there after the atrocity and had been responding to love.
In a sense it’s like they’ve been playing tag with which one of them thinks Regina is irredeemable. Snow thinks Regina is iredeemable this time. Regina had committed herself to being irredeemable after being spared the arrows. Snow believes Regina isn’t capable of changing back after the curse is broken. The show is in danger of muddying the waters if they go for too much back and forth on this though.
After this episode at least we can understand why Regina thought Snow was going to let her back into her family after the well incident. “Here! I did the right thing! I saved you! Can we go to family dinner now?” LOL Though we can still understand why Snow didn’t as well.
For some fans they may feel this is a slippery slope for these two characters. I have my worries about it. I think the performances were worth the risk in storytelling this time, and I think they could go somewhere good with it all. Especially with Snow trying to fix her own heart. It gives her a whole new perspective about the world. They just have to be really cautious of keeping their morality straight, not villifying Snow to make Regina more redeemable, and getting Regina’s delusional head out of her cute derrier.