Guesses about this "Heart of Darkness"

[obisgirl]

@mia wrote:

I think it’s about the EQ. It would be too much of a link to the hearts she collects! It doesn’t have to be the EQ’s heart that is meant, but maybe of someone who’s responsible for her becoming like this (and I don’t mean Snow xD)

I don't know if it's in this episode or in 18/19 or something but they have an episode about Regina where her mother appears. http://www.tvline.com/2012/01/once-upon-a-time-barbara-hershey-evil-queen-mother/ I think it may well be about how her influence turned the EQ the way she is.

I also think this is the episode where we learn what Snow White did to make the Evil Queen angry, although I read an episode summary yesterday (don't remember if it was for this episode or a different one), where it said that Regina was given a choice: to choose between true love or a loveless marriage with the king, and the description hinted that maybe her mother wanted her to choose the marriage with the king, over true love.

Because wealth = power, and True love doesn't = power. Which, if Regina's mother is the one responsible for the loveless marriage and not Snow White, Regina has “mommy issues;” not annoying “step-daughter issues.”

[mia]

Actually, the episode where we find out what Snow did to Regina is episode 18. I didn't know that, when I wrote that post.

I agree with others that the title means the darkness that grows in Snow as an after-effect of drinking Rumpel’s potion.

[Slurpeez]

I believe the “heart of darkness” not only refers to an altered Snow White after drinking the potion, but it also refers to the heart in the box that Ruby discovered in episode 15.

"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

[hjbau]

That is a good idea slurpeez. Usually the titles do have multiple meanings.

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