@Keb wrote:
See, I love Rumple to death and I was seriously conflicted by what he did here, too. I’m still desperately trying to work out the tangled emotions behind that cold look as he stands over Regina and Cora’s body. I’m not entirely sure what to make of his “I did nothing” or “Your mother did you no favors.”
I think, “I did nothing,” was one of those instances where Rumple chooses words very carefully. Notice what it was in reply to: “You stole her life. You cast some spell.” “I did nothing,” in direct response to that wasn’t technically a lie. I don’t dispute that he actually did have an awful lot to do with Cora’s death, but did he personally cast a spell that took her life? No. Dude is a master of crafting words and manipulating without outright lying.
Also truth, “Your mother did you no favours.” Rumple knows that Cora had been happily scheming away since before Regina was even conceived. I think in that moment, he was back there in the past with young Cora, remembering the dream he’d had of their potential life together, until she screwed him over and he felt it all slip away from him. In a way, he totally gets what Regina is feeling in relation to Cora. Both of them had an affection for her, despite knowing she was bad for them, and both of them suffered losing her when they were on the brink of believing they’d have her forever. Of course, Rumple’s never done Regina any favours either, so he’s not really in a position to be dissing Cora. Maybe he was trying to say, “You’ll be better off without her,” but that’s not really what Regina wants to be hearing right now.
And even if he does have conflicted feelings about Cora’s death and Regina’s pain–both of which he probably feels are highly deserved on various levels, yet which compare so much with the reunion he spent a couple hundred years seeking with Bae,
The previous scene with Bae must be weighing on his mind in that moment. He’s finally getting that chance at a reunion with his child, and he’s just played a role in robbing Regina of the same thing.
@TheEvilOne wrote:
I know, how can I support Regina and be so angry with Rumple. Well I now Regina is a villain, I know she has done a lot of terrible terrible things, and I know she is paying for them. She also hasn’t learned anything, she keeps letting people put ideas into her head, I wish my girl would start thinking for herself and actually think on her actions.
When she first aligned with Cora in SB, I was really hoping Regina was playing her. I was really hoping she’d got a clue and was being devious in order to bring her mother down. I’m not an EvilRegal, but I was giving her the benefit of the doubt and really hoping. Then I ended up disappointed. Though the storyline we’ve got is incredibly compelling and I can’t wait to see where it goes next, but I’m just saying, I’d have actually had some respect for Regina for pretty much the first time ever if she’d played Cora at her own game, but alas. Rumple may never learn his lessons either, but I can see why he doesn’t, because he wins. How many times does Regina have to lose before she realises she needs to change how she operates?
But Regina has no one, not a single person to care for her.
This is true, and really sad. They’ll have to have someone else join TeamRegina at some point, because I suspect she’s gonna go so dark now that she won’t be able to haul herself out of it. Wonder who will be the one to eventually help her?