@EvilQueen wrote:
“I would look at it more as a commitment to excellence. Cora is focused, and she’s committed, and she saw her daughter upset but not broken, and she said she would come back and break her. And she did. And that’s love,” Kitsis concludes.”
What. 😕 They truly have a weird interpretation of love. I hope your mother isn’t reading it, Kitsis.
I think they’re saying that sardonically. In episode 10, Hook mockingly jested, “Aren’t you mother of the year?” and I think that’s the same tone with which Kitsis gave that reply. In several other interviews the producers commented that while Cora really loves Regina, it’s a twisted kind of love.
"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