Yassss I thought it was just me. (Im a bit late to this but oh well)
I'm finiding all these villians more charming than the charmings and thats the gag. At first I wasnt a fan of Regina but slowly i grew to love and understand her she really humbles herself and sacrafices for Henry, she kept him even though she new that he was gonna lead to the downfall of her curse yet Em gave him up and when he rocked back up on her doorstep her manner was far from welcoming. You could argue that the whole 'chraming' family experinced a lot of troubles but i believe that throughout it there was this silver lining they had someone there to remind them of the good. Whereas, with the vilians you see the sequences of unfortunate events happening to them even the 'breakthrought' they thought they were gonna ends up bringning them more pain. You can understand why they just susscumb to being bad but even when Regina was evil you see how committed she was to Hnery, he was never used to a means of an end like the charming did with Em or how Em was willing to run away from it. The prolem with Regina is she indulges in this painful dark place.
The many issues i have with the charmings especially snow is that she holds onto this concept of goodness to feed this self rightiousness arua. Regina can accept the fact that if anything goes wrong she suspect no. 1 regardless of this so called change, Rumple knows that he is crocked and lusta for power because all his life he was labeeled as a coward by what were suppose to be 'good' people.
Yet Snow manipluated Regina and killed her mother and that sheep of a husand of hers babies her over it. You could say shes remorseful but honestly i feel like she was upset because it went aganist the verys ame thing she uses to put herself up on that pedestal and there was no denying it . (even though at the time i thought it was justified.) She would rather let Regina kill her than live with the fact that she took a page right out of her book. Prince Charming even blames Rumple for convincing his wife to kill as if she isnt a grown woman and can decide for herself. This just shows the whole grey area of good and bad and how our actions have a ripple effect and we actually are our brother keeper, what if snow's mother showed mercy on Reginas mother? I blieve it wouldve went a lot differently. Theres like this double standard everything they do to Regina i.e bringing back Marian ( and that stupid apology which wasnt an aplogy Em gave) they were quick to be side eye her and think she was going to be evil again. She trying to be good but they never really help they like to say all these fanciful stuff but they never think about the consequences of their actions. If they feel good about it then thats that. They give off the whole throw rocks but hide your hand energy and i can't stand it.
The Charmings radiate this disingenious vibe, this whole forced display of family. Really and truly Prince charming never felt farthely to me and i just felt they were so concerned with kissing each others faces off that Em's issues never really got addressed even when Em accidently hurt Snow precious husband she was quick to turn on Em and was scared of her power. You could see it when she got angry about how Snow was running her mouth with the excitement of all this new baby stuff and 'trying again" its selfish and i found myself thinking why do you deserve to have another child when the one you have still needs you, you slapped Geppetto for putting his son in that bloody tree yet look what you did to Maleficient and you want to hide it with these threats of murder? ( I know she apologised and said she wasnt feeling like her self but that was the real her she wasnt under a spell) Regardless of this faer lying should'nt be the answer they will be the first to preach this but do differently, they even partially succumbed to idea of Em being normal so it could be easier?
Maybe im being highly biased but oh well, Regina has done a lout of hurtful things she knows and she says it herself but i think whats worse is the charmings condeming her yet theyve gone down this route yet they want to burry their dirty secrets they have done the same worng it just looks differnt to Regina's.
omg this was hella long but ouuu chileeee i needed to get it out i cant stand the audacity of Snow and her lap dog sorry i mean Prince charming its gotten to the point where i skip the scenes that are of just two of them, i dont even balme Em for the way she acts because look at her mother but they both need to a heavy dose of reality