Regina's Reliance on Magic

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I think Regina definitely has problems using magic, but it isn’t magic as much as it is power.   Remember, she became the Queen, and even when she “ran the town” as Mayor Mills, she had little magic to work her will, but she still tried to (and with Greg-Owen) did ruin lives.   As Queen, she ordered guards to kill a village.  That was evil and no magic there.

Magic is power, but when that power is used out of love, in that case there probably is not a bad price to pay.  Or maybe in this world there is, but it is hard to say.    Magic doesn’t have to be logical, and we know sometimes the writers might be kind of plot-devicey about magic being useful or not.

Ultimately though, I do not think Regina’s story is simply that she needs to stop using magic and she will be fine.  She needs to stop craving power to force people to do what she wants, and start (forgot who said this, RG?) realizing she can’t always get what SHE wants.    She’s been very selfish and self-absorbed for far too long, because while her pain and loss were great, she has by far inflicted greater suffering on so many others.  She lost ONE true love, and because of her actions, we’ve seen entire families killed, people cursed, children separated from families, and endless other horrors.  Yet we feel for Regina, and I do want her to attain redemption.   I am totally excited for a story line where she starts to care about someone else other than Henry.  He’s a child, and the power imbalance always exists between child and parent, but another adult?  Someone who can challenge her and guide her?  Rumple  and Cora, weren’t motivated to guide her to good, Henry Sr./Mirror were too weak to stand up to her, but someone who is strong enough to stand the moral high ground (and who she doesn’t hate and distrust like Snow), that would be awesome to see.

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