Can you imagine the furor if Snow White came home one day and told Charming she was tossing him over for Rapunzel? It would be hilarious but it’s not going to happen.
LOL “I’m sorry sweetie, but it turns out I missed long hair a little bit more than I’d thought.”
Seriously though, I get that some people switch teams part way through life. I have a friend who was married, had two kids, then several years later left her husband and came out. She’d known the whole time she was really a lesbian though, she’d just been lying to herself and the world about it because she’d wanted to have kids, so she’d decided she’d needed the husband. Neither Emma or Regina appear to be living in denial about their sexuality though, and for SwanQueen to happen, they would both have to have some orientation related epiphany. And really, how could that be shown in a convincing way?
And that’s not even getting into the whole thing with Emma having to get over the fact that Regina’s tried to kill her mother several times. Could you really trust someone like that to be your romantic partner? I sure as hell couldn’t.
They keep saying that Regina will find love again this season but I can’t help but wonder if it won’t happen until the very end of the season. Her arc this season has GOT to be redemption. She made huge strides in the final episode of S2 and she has to continue down that path and It think it has to be mostly alone or else the dangerous precedant that you need romantic love to be a whole person and truly forgiven is…well dangerous. For sure, it won’t be until after they rescue Henry, right? Same with Emma. No matter who her end game is, it can’t really be expected to happen until after the Henry situation is resolved.
I would imagine so, yes. Though in Emma’s case, I could see CS developing a close bond during the process of actually rescuing Henry. And at whatever point Neal shows up again, there are gonna be all sorts of FEELS flying around. So I could see them doing a slow build through the season regarding Emma’s relationships with them both, without her actually getting full on involved with either one.
In Regina’s case, that’s something else I’ve considered with my RH crackpot theory, (I swear I’ve never thought so much about Regina’s love life as I have in the last few days, and I don’t care that I’m the only one in the universe shipping this LOL). They could show him in present day FTL at the start of the season and give him some more development, then spend the whole season showing Regina finally getting her act together once and for all, and then maybe by the end of the season, the SBers will all end up back in FTL too, at which point Regina and RH would meet for the first time.