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I’d hate it if villains became heroes and heroes became villains. We’ve already established that our most evil villains have great capacity to be heroes. I’d rather concentrate on who they are today than who they woulda, shoulda, coulda been had they made different choices.
I totally agree. The lines of good and evil are already so bendy on this show, and I don’t want any more alternate universes. The S3 finale was bad enough in that it rewrote Snow Falls — a beautiful story that didn’t need to be rewritten.
One thing that perpetually has interested, yet also vexed me about this show, is that the villains use their broken families to justify their evil decisions. Yet, the heroes of the show like Snow, Charming, Belle, Emma, Henry and Neal all had broken families, but you don’t see them running around using it as justification for mass murdering people. Sure, Snow, Emma and Neal were all thieves at one point, but at least they were only doing it for survival reasons. A lot of people put the blame on Snow for ruining Regina’s life, but very few people put the blame on Regina for ruining Snow’s life. Why is that? It seems like any reversal of roles in which Snow becomes a hardened villain while Regina plays the innocent victim is just going the fuel the hate for Snow while exciting the love for Regina that already exists in some sectors of this fandom. (And yes, I love that Regina has since reformed from her evil ways, so this is not an anti-Regina post; it’s an anti-anti-Snow White post). In fact, we already have seen Snow White casting the same dark curse that Regina cast, and Regina breaking the second curse with maternal TLK. So we don’t need any more role reversal, thanks.
And it’s not just Snow and Regina. It goes back to Neal and Hook. It goes back to Regina and Henry. It now includes Regina and Emma. It includes arguments about who’s more morally wrong: Hook, Regina, or Rumple when the reality is that they’ve ALL done bad things. It shouldn’t matter that Hook has only killed a handful of people while Rumple and Regina have killed many. Murder is still murder. It’s wrong. I just wish the show would stop using magical high jinx to rewrite history. I think at the end of the day, the villains have to take moral responsibility and not fob off the blame onto the storybook or fate.
"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