Zelena Mills/The Wicked Witch of the West Character Analysis

[WickedRegal]

Just decided to go ahead and make this. I have no idea when we’ll do her analysis, but I suspect late July or early August, or whenever @RumplesGirl announces that it’s time to discuss our lovely green witch.

[PriceofMagic]

All depends on how much we discuss on Henry. Charming’s turn only lasted about 3 days whereas Regina’s and Rumple’s turns lasted about a week.

Because we seem to be discussing all the regulars first, Hook and Nealfire are the only regulars left to discuss after Henry. It’s going to be an interesting one on Hook because he is quite a divisive character and people are very passionate in both their like and dislike of him, not to mention the CaptainSwanFire triangle.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[RumplesGirl]

If you think I haven’t been trying my hardest to make Hook and Neal last….lol

I was contemplating doing some minor characters before we hit those two since chances are it’s going to be unpleasant.

I think we can go ahead and start with Zelena, though.

My opening question is really this:

Zelena: justifiably angry or unhinged whiner?

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[WickedRegal]

All depends on how much we discuss on Henry. Charming’s turn only lasted about 3 days whereas Regina’s and Rumple’s turns lasted about a week. Because we seem to be discussing all the regulars first, Hook and Nealfire are the only regulars left to discuss after Henry. It’s going to be an interesting one on Hook because he is quite a divisive character and people are very passionate in both their like and dislike of him, not to mention the CaptainSwanFire triangle.

Yeah, I know…we’ve got a lot to discuss before we get to Zelena. But I think we should go ahead and have the posts up for when we do that character, but then again…that’s too many. So I’d really like for us to cover the Core/Side Core and our villains. Instead of covering the whole of SB. 😛

I’m so eager for the Nealfire Discussion!!! When oh when, shall we get to him…

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

[WickedRegal]

If you think I haven’t been trying my hardest to make Hook and Neal last….lol I was contemplating doing some minor characters before we hit those two since chances are it’s going to be unpleasant. I think we can go ahead and start with Zelena, though. My opening question is really this: Zelena: justifiably angry or unhinged whiner?

I’m sorry RG!! I wasn’t rushing, if you all want to continue discussing Henry, and everyone else! That’s good!

But to answer your question…I’m leaning more onto unhinged whiner. I expected so much more from her in the beginning, and was severely let down with her backstory. I just saw no true justification of her wickedness….but because she’s a Mills woman, I love her anyway.

@WickedRegal’s Reaction to Its Not Easy Being Green (Let down to the extreme)

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

[PriceofMagic]

@RG, I think we should do the Hook and Nealfire discussions sooner because, whilst it probably will be unpleasant, we can get them out of the way and then continue with the pleasant discussions on the rest of the characters all the way to season 4 so then we end the character discussions on a high not otherwise if Hook and Nealfire are left to the end and it does turn unpleasant as you suspect it will, then it would mean we end the character discussions on a low note.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[WickedRegal]

@RG, I think we should do the Hook and Nealfire discussions sooner because, whilst it probably will be unpleasant, we can get them out of the way and then continue with the pleasant discussions on the rest of the characters all the way to season 4 so then we end the character discussions on a high not otherwise if Hook and Nealfire are left to the end and it does turn unpleasant as you suspect it will, then it would mean we end the character discussions on a low note.

I agree…get the unpleasant discussion out of the way first. But I think we need to give a warning to any Anti Neal or Anti Hook people(which I don’t think we have on here) but to remind them to remain polite in the discussion about to take place.

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

[PriceofMagic]

But to answer your question…I’m leaning more onto unhinged whiner. I expected so much more from her in the beginning, and was severely let down with her backstory. I just saw no true justification of her wickedness

I agree. I went into 3B expecting Zelena to be one of my favourite characters, unfortunately she has now become one of my least favourite characters. Her reason for being “wicked” was flimsy at best and the torture she put Rumple though has probably made her worse than Pan IMO. It felt like the writers were trying to force the audience to feel sympathy for her and instead she just came off as an “unhinged whiner”.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[RumplesGirl]

We can go ahead and shelve this one if you guys want Hook/Neal first. We’ll start that one soon. Want to give everyone a chance to weigh in on Henry.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[WickedRegal]

We can go ahead and shelve this one if you guys want Hook/Neal first. We’ll start that one soon. Want to give everyone a chance to weigh in on Henry.

Let’s do it! 🙂

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

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