Regina’s speech about loving her mom

[Slurpeez]

@The Fairest wrote:

@Nightreader wrote:

I’ll agree that it could just be that Regina’s a seriously disfunctional person but… well the scene didn’t feel right to me. Every word felt out of character and she didn’t look sincere to me either (and I know Lana’s a brilliant actress so it can hardly be that I just didn’t like her acting in the scene).
I suppose it could be as myril said, that she just meant that she was striving for her approval, but even then the speech feels over the top to me :/

I agree. The scene was very out of character. It felt like the writers were trying to retcon the Evil Queen’s character by adding this little scene to make her look more sympathetic.

Maybe the writers were playing with our sympathy, but I get why they included that scene. It was to explore what happens when the mother-daughter relationship goes awry and to paint a contrast to Snow and Emma’s budding mother-daughter relationship. Also, while I agree the scene felt a bit forced given what we know about Cora and Regina’s complicated relationship, we’re analyzing it from an outside perspective. Imagine being emotionally abused and manipulated by your own mother for your entire life and hearing that she only does it out of love for you. You’d be pretty messed up and confused about what constitutes real maternal love, right? Up to that point, Regina had banished her mother to be rid of her influence, and yet, even when Cora wasn’t around to manipulate her daughter, Regina became increasingly like her mother, whom Regina vowed never to become. That just goes to show how deep Cora’s psychological grip was over her daughter.

Wishing her mother dead shows how much Regina needed to lay the past to rest and start a new chapter, but the fact that she loved her mother after all the horrible things Cora did to Regina shows what a deep hold Cora had over Regina. I think that tight psychological grip is the true reason why Regina took out so much disproportionate anger on Snow White instead of the true culprit, her mom. Regina, who’d been emotionally abused, couldn’t stand up to her abuser. It’s why Regina dealt with her mother only indirectly, first by banishment and then by arranging for her mother’s assassination, where Regina never had to speak to her mother again. It’s also why Regina, the abused, became the abuser of young Snow White, who was a much weaker and easier target than Cora was.

[mike]

Good stuff Slurpeez108. It should be very interesting to watch the dynamics between Cora and Regina in SB, now that Regina has a love in her life (Henry) other than her mother. Can’t imagine Cora is capable of sharing Regina with anyone.

Aside from being with her daughter and wanting to control her life again, I’m really curious if there is another ‘big” reason as to why Cora had to “cross many worlds” to get to SB. My thought is, it involves her heart.

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