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Is it enough that villains just declare that they are becoming heroes? Apparently not.
Regina: Got Sidney out of mothballs, and contemplated doing evil to Marian. Now she is attempting to change fate to get her “happy ending”.Rumple: Stick a fork in him. He’s done. The name “The Dark One” should have tipped us off. He shows no inclination to go straight, aside from periodic avowals.
Hook: Even before the hand business, even before beating the Knave, Hook was blackmailing Gold. Not something you would expect from a hero. Still very flawed character.
Henry: Henry is the product of good and the product of evil. His evil side is on display in this episode. He conspires with Regina in Operation Mongoose. He uses Rumple’s dead son as leverage to infiltrate Gold’s shop and spy on him. He expresses happiness that Robin Hood does not love his wife. He sweeps the dirt under the display cabinets. Straighten up and fly right, Henry!
I think this season is going to focus on the flawed nature of our villains, and show us that redemption is not as easy as it looks.
[adrotate group="5"]I think this season is going to focus on the flawed nature of our villains, and show us that redemption is not as easy as it looks.
I agree. I think the writers are trying to show that being a hero isn’t easy, it’s a day to day thing, not just “whenever a crisis happens.” The villains often mock the heroes are being too pure or too good or idiots. But now they are discovering that being a hero isn’t actually all that easy.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I think this season is going to focus on the flawed nature of our villains, and show us that redemption is not as easy as it looks.
I agree. I think the writers are trying to show that being a hero isn’t easy, it’s a day to day thing, not just “whenever a crisis happens.” The villains often mock the heroes are being too pure or too good or idiots. But now they are discovering that being a hero isn’t actually all that easy.
I agree.
There was a saying from season one, if true love was easy, we’d all have it. Switch that around, if being a hero and good was easy, you wouldn’t need redemption.
Is it enough that villains just declare that they are becoming heroes? Apparently not.
Hopefully, this season will be one of reckoning. So far the writers have been exploring the “darkness that lies beneath” in all of the main villains. Admission of guilt, as well as desire for real change, and compassion for others are the signs of true inward change. However, I don’t think I would include Henry with the group of people you listed. Even if he is momentarily tempted by the darkness, I hope he never will give into it. I think his journey will parallel Regina’s as she comes to a point of reckoning in her own life and passes on that lesson to her son (or so I hope). I hope the lesson she teaches him is that it wasn’t the book or anyone else that made her into a villain, but her own bad decisions. Same goes for Hook. Same goes for Rumple.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
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