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Vanquishing the Evil Queen

Home › Forums › Once Upon a Time › Season Six › 6×14 “Page 23” › Vanquishing the Evil Queen

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  • March 26, 2017 at 9:04 pm #335000
    RumplesGirl
    Keymaster

    Tonight, Regina beat the Evil Queen with love instead of hate. Did it feel like a fitting end to this story? Will the Evil Queen and Robin Hood live happily ever after?

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    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    March 26, 2017 at 9:26 pm #335006
    WickedRegal
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    Personally…I feel like the scene could have been 100x more powerful if Regina & EQ were put back together! The speech was beautiful and them coming back together would have been the icing on the cake. Unfortunately we did not get that…and now I’m stuck wondering, what are they now? Like they’re still the same person, but they’re separated….so should we see them as like…twins or something?

    As for EQ & Robin Hood living happily ever after…I’d say yeah, they lived happily ever after. How…I don’t know because in Wish Realm, King Henry and the guards are still hunting her down and Robin’s still an outlaw at large, so….I just like to think the best in this case. It would have been so much better, had Henry sent EQ into another parallel realm as her younger self meeting younger/pre outlaw Robin Hood at the Tavern and show Page 23 coming true, that would have been perfect.

    As for a fitting ending…it works. Could’ve been better, but I guess it’ll just have to work. My only thing is…EQ got her happy ending, what’s Regina’s happy ending?

    "If you go as far as you can see...you will then see enough to go even further." - Finn Balor

    March 26, 2017 at 9:31 pm #335007
    MatthewPaul
    Moderator

    I think the main reason they went this route instead of full-on reintegration was to give OutlawQueen some sort of happy ending. There is still some reintegration with Regina giving Evil Queen some of her love, while taking back some of the Evil Queen’s darkness. Otherwise, I think they would have recombined.

    March 26, 2017 at 9:32 pm #335008
    RumplesGirl
    Keymaster

    I think the main reason they went this route instead of full-on reintegration was to give OutlawQueen some sort of happy ending. There is still some reintegration with Regina giving Evil Queen some of her love, while taking back some of the Evil Queen’s darkness. Otherwise, I think they would have recombined.

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    100% agreed.

    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    March 26, 2017 at 9:41 pm #335011
    AKA
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    feel like the scene could have been 100x more powerful if Regina & EQ were put back together! The speech was beautiful and them coming back together would have been the icing on the cake.

    Agree Completely, but loved the heart scene and Lana killed the acting.  I liked that they were able to give outlaw queen fans some much needed happy endings.  I think that they will somehow live happily ever after in the Wish Realm.

    March 26, 2017 at 10:14 pm #335014
    RumplesGirl
    Keymaster

    loved the heart scene and Lana killed the acting.

    Lana did kill that scene as both Regina and the EQ. And the conclusion to that story–self love and forgiveness–was really potent to Regina’s entire arc. Still not sure I liked the ultimate end of EQ and RH because I think the EQ needs to find peace for a bit longer than a hot second.

    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    March 26, 2017 at 11:58 pm #335029
    hjbau
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    I think this was also an answer to the misunderstanding by the producers of the reaction to real Robin’s death. This, also, doesn’t change any of that. Hook is still alive and Robin is still dead. Hook still came back and kissed Emma at Robin’s grave. Hook was still special deus ex machina brought back to life by god for no reason at all, he did not deserve it in any way, whereas Robin was special extra strength killed so that he could not be saved even though he died saving Regina and helping get rid of Hades. That is all still true and all still hated and all still a mess and nothing about this storyline about fake wish Robin changes any of that.

    March 27, 2017 at 1:15 am #335036
    Gaultheria
    Participant

    It felt like a mid-season course change, wrapping up the Enemy Within plot ahead of schedule. If I had to guess as to why they’d want to make room in the second half of this season for good stories…

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    March 27, 2017 at 10:55 am #335049
    thedarkonedearie
    Participant

    Lana did kill that scene as both Regina and the EQ. And the conclusion to that story–self love and forgiveness–was really potent to Regina’s entire arc. Still not sure I liked the ultimate end of EQ and RH because I think the EQ needs to find peace for a bit longer than a hot second.

    This is exactly how I felt.

    March 28, 2017 at 4:28 am #335105
    onceaholic
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    Tonight, Regina beat the Evil Queen with love instead of hate. Did it feel like a fitting end to this story? Will the Evil Queen and Robin Hood live happily ever after?

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    Not sure, if Henry is out to get them because he thinks she killed his grandparents. I have to say, sending them to the WWW was a bit silly, given the danger they are in. The only way this would make sense is if this is setting up for a season 7 or a spin-off  to be in WWW with Good-Evil Queen on the run.

     

    However, I guess David’s wish was fulfilled-she got exactly what she deserved (in the eyes of the writers), love and a fresh start. (But she would also kinda deserve to live not too comfortably, always knowing that Henry is a few paces behind her).

    Overall though, I wasn’t satisfied. She should have been reintergrated, then she should have given the hearts back and fix a few other messes. This would have been a satisfactory conclusion for me.

     

    Keeper of Regina's bravery

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