@TheGoldenKey wrote:
@myril wrote:
Mostly agree with Snow and Charming being bad rulers of their kingdom. Not being able to harm them didn’t mean, that Regina couldn’t still have tried to pay back by harming everybody else they love or care about (so pretty much everybody else, as ruler they should care about their people). At best it was naiv, maybe hoping, that if they were protected, Regina wouldn’t dare to attack anyone else to get back on them, after all they could have gone after her again if. Well, good people sometimes lack the imagination what evil people are capable of (and I say so despite that I think, that no one is all good or all evil, but indeed mostly good people sometimes seem to lack what one might call evil creativity and imagination, they may just don’t want to believe, that anyone is capable of some things).
Again, I see things somewhat differently. Snow, as a young girl, was quite in awe of Reggie. She truly loved her and looked up to her. It was only after Snow became an adult and Reggie murdered her father that she saw that evil side to her. Thus, she was torn between love (for Reggie) and hate (for EQ) all throughout their FTL relationship.
I see both her and Charming as kind, just and righteous rulers. They believe in the goodness of all people. Now Charming was ready to execute EQ However, seeing as there were such strong emotional ties between Snow & EQ, it wasn’t as easy for Snow. She knew the kind gentle young Reggie. This wasn’t some stranger that was an enemy of the state. It was her step mother, one she had loved for well over a decade. Can’t even begin to imagine the torment she must have gone through.
I’m sure they believed in having her banished she would no longer pose any threat to them or the kingdom. I’d rather someone error on the side of right then wrong. They made a mistake, it happens. Doesn’t mean that they weren’t strong, kind and fair rulers.
I meant being bad, or should maybe say mislead in this particular case, not in general. And I very much see where Snow has been coming from, can understand it. (I loved, that the writers did this, it was very much in character for her, anything else would have been mediocre writing.) Nevertheless, it was some huge mistake they made here. And I think Snow questioned herself later for that (remember what she said in the pilot), maybe still does. Banishing was obviously not enough. Not saying they should have killed Regina, but find some way to control her magic. They later locked up Rumple, didn’t they.
At least Snow though made it very clear when they let Regina go: that she would kill Regina, if she would ever hurt anyone in their kingdom again.
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