Snow’s Letter..confused

[thewendybird]

Okay so I just re-watched this episode tonight when ABC put on a re-run.

Snow’s letter talks about Regina getting “revenge” and how she was sorry that because of her she’d never have LOVE in her life etc.

Snow didn’t find out till she went to eat the apple that Daniel died….so what was Snow referring to here or is this a flub & fluff?

[lilred]

IDK, maybe she just thought a woman who would try to kill a girl she {kind of} raised was incapable of love. But…I guess we really don’t know what the Snow/Regina dynamic was like from age 13 on. Regina could easily be a ‘handsoff-stepmother’.

We’ve had questionable dialogue from Snow before. Her telling Charming in the first episode that Regina made her eat a poisoned apple because she thought Snow was ‘prettier than her’ still kind of irks me: there had to have been several ways they could have phrased this without giving the backstory away, but still have it make sense for fans re-watching! And Snow knew very well why Regina wanted her gone.

[playarita]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pretty
O.E. prættig (W.Saxon), pretti (Kentish), *prettig (Mercian) “cunning, skillful, artful,” from prætt, *prett “a trick, wile, craft,” from W.Gmc. *pratt- (cf. O.N. prettr “a trick,” prettugr “tricky;” Frisian pret, M.Du. perte, Dutch pret “trick, joke,” Dutch prettig “sportive, funny,” Flemish pertig “brisk, clever”).

Connection between Old English and Middle English words is uncertain, but if they are the same, meaning had shifted by c.1400 to “manly, gallant,” and later moved via “attractive, skillfully made,” to “fine,” to “beautiful in a slight way” (mid-15c.). For sense evolution, compare nice, silly. Used to qualify adjectives and adverbs (“moderately”) since 1560s. Pretty-boy is attested from 1885. A pretty penny “lot of money” is first recorded 1768.

I wonder if Snow meant that Regina was adamant in getting rid of Snow was because she prettier inside and out, not only beauty but in the other sense of the word (Snow is more clever and cunning for running away from Regina without magic is an example)

[schmacky]

I thought that Snow thought Daniel had run away and left Regina because she (Snow) told Cora about it. So, I always thought that until the apple incident, Snow blamed herself for Regina’s unhappiness because she thought she was at fault for Daniel running away.

[eireland]

I was wondering this too… Because also in this episode… Graham as the Huntsman says something to her like
Snow: She thinks I ruined her life.
Graham: Did you?
Snow: Yes.
So… if she doesn’t know that Cora killed Daniel, than why does she think that she ruined Regina’s life.
I want to re-watch the episodes with little Snow again, to remember exactly what Regina told her about not marrying Daniel as a child… because there is definitely a discussion between little Snow and R when Snow confesses to telling Cora about Daniel… Regina just doesn’t respond “well thanks for that, she killed him because of that”… so… does Regina maybe make Snow feel like Daniel LEFT because Snow told Cora about him? I need to re-watch.
Also, there was the scene in the genie episode when Snow’s dad is all “my daughter is the fairest of them all” right in front of Regina… and that’s kind of when Regina kills Snow’s dad, right? So… I know the whole “she poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her” comment IS wrong and out of context.. but it still kind of works IF that also contributed to Regina hating Snow (I’m sure it doesn’t feel good for your husband to say your step-daughter is prettier than you and to not even acknowledge you in a room full of people).
Regina DID tolerate Snow until this point, right? So, maybe that was the tipping point?

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