Hold up! Are people seriously complaining about Regina being upset with Emma nearly ruining her life?
Ok….Regina has every right to feel the way she feels right now! Let’s take it back to high school shall we darlings? You’re in love with an insanely charming, follow the rules, all around amazing guy! Then the girl whose supposed to be your good friend goes back and accidently reunites him with his ex. Wouldn’t you be pi**ed off a little too! So yes…Regina has every right to be angry with Emma, but it’s only for a temporary time.
THIS was the episode for Regina to vent, scream, curse Emma to the top of her lungs, just to get all the building anger and frustration out of her system! At the end of this episode, we were shown that Regina slowly took a step forward in moving past Emma’s accidental betrayal! Yes! A life was saved, but at the cost of someone’s long overdue happiness, and almost some much needed trust between these two women. Emma didn’t even verbally apologize for her accidental betrayal, but the mere fact she’s willing to stand by, and do whatever it took to show Regina how sorry she was, was a lot more than what Evil Regals saw Snow White even do….well Pre 3×18 Bleeding Through Snow White.
And for those saying there was no parallel between Regina and Lily…Yes there was! Lily blatantly lied to Emma, and gave her hope of them being together forever. Regina on the other hand was straightforward with Emma, and although she withheld the truth about Sidney, she never lied and gave Emma any false hope. Lily was a little fake, Regina was straight up honest, in a brutal way, but honest nonetheless.
And just another friendly reminder:
Lana Parrilla’s Interview About 4×05 Breaking Glass and Emma:
“It takes a bit, because she feels betrayed,” Parrilla told us. “She’s hurt by Emma, deeply. She doesn’t know if it [saving Marian] was intentional. I think deep down inside of her, she hopes it was a mistake or an accident, but it’s going to take her a little bit to come around, and to open her heart again. Because I do believe she cares for Emma on some level. It’s almost like a sisterly bond they have. And that mirrors the Elsa and Anna bond — you see in that first episode, that famous behind the door scene, and that mirrors the Frozen scene. To me, they are setting up that kind of relationship between the two. I love what happens to them. There’s an episode coming up where I remember reading the script going, ‘Oh my God, Regina’s so awful to Emma! She’s saying one horrible thing after another.’ Playing it is one thing, because you feel like a total bi**h for eight days while you’re filming the episode, but in reality it’s only 45 minutes. And it’s one day, where she’s just really upset and wants to punish her. And I think she just needs to get it off her chest and they’ll move forward. I’m excited about their relationship because they’re very similar. They have something they were born with, which is this magic. Emma and Regina don’t have a lot of people they can relate to. So it’s nice they find comfort in one another,” Lana said of what would cement an Emma-Regina team-up.
So please everyone…Cut Regina some slack for once. This was her episode to vent, and now that she has…her and Emma can just move forward now.
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