From what I remember:
In her defense:
She belongs in prison or shut put her powers to a lifetime of helping people/social service ;) Strange enough they gave her evil half a happy end with false Robin.
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Reply by MyriVerse
on May 15, 2017 at 7:15 AM
Everybody deserves a happy ending.
Reply by REDrainbowUNICORN
on May 15, 2017 at 8:25 AM
Reply by Master_YODA
on May 16, 2017 at 8:32 AM
Good summary and of course... it is a fantasy Show. But still ... she killed so many people who never get a happy End. I found the twist of her evil half in the enchanted forest helping the poor fitting.
A lifetime of helping others to redeem herself feels right. A little bit like Angel from Buffy did with his detective agency.
I would watch a similar show with Regina fighting for others against the evil in the world -> *Queen Regina vs. the power of Evil *;)
The main problem is - most of the characters belong in prison and punished: Rumple, Regina, Zelena, Hook... but the actors are much to charming ;) In the real world - people who did those things - wouldn't be so charismatic and lovable.
Reply by John Ell
on May 16, 2017 at 9:10 AM
*fixed
Definitely deserves a happy ending .
Reply by Moonglum9
on May 22, 2017 at 7:32 AM
I would like a happy ending from Regina.
FOR Regina, I mean!
Reply by Philippe LeMarchand
on May 22, 2017 at 9:29 AM
Reply by Kylopod
on July 9, 2017 at 1:59 AM
The entire notion of villains "turning good" is one of the more naive of common fantasy tropes, and this show, G-d love it, almost shamelessly embraces it.
Traditionally, of course, you see this trope with a villain who dies. Just at the end, he makes a heroic sacrifice, redeeming himself. (Think Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi.) Because of this, the question of paying the price for past atrocities becomes moot.
But in OUAT, the redeemed villains not only get to live, but face no legal consequences for anything they did prior to redemption, almost as if they're given a blank slate purely from their change of heart. And it's not as if this fairy-tale society lacks a justice system. Zelena, for example, after being defeated is sent to one of the cells, and even after showing real signs of sliding back into evil, finally reconciles with her sister, and then...nothing! She's permitted to remain a free woman (or free witch). And this is someone who only very recently threatened the entire town and even murdered one of their friends.
And I haven't even gotten into how ridiculous it is from a psychological perspective to think someone who has lived as a mass murdering sociopath for decades could truly change their ways. With Hook, at least, there's some rationale, since it goes back to the theme in the original Peter Pan tale that the magic of immortality causes people to remain static. So even though he lives hundreds of years, he remains in the form of a young scoundrel for all that time and isn't able to grow until after he leaves Neverland.
The most convincing of the show's antiheroes is Rumpelstiltskin, because he never totally turns good, and he never was purely evil to begin with. He's presented, consistently, as a man of contradictions, with a lust for power and a certain self-centerdness overwhelming a deeply buried conscience.
But the show never provides a convincing explanation for Regina's transformation, beyond the lame idea that it happens simply because she loves Henry. I almost felt like the writers painted themselves into a corner after her defeat in the first season. To keep her as a main character, they felt they had to turn her into one of the heroes. So they just sort of forced the issue and largely ignored the consequences of what such a transformation would actually entail.
Reply by decarus
on July 12, 2017 at 11:37 AM
Regina is the only villain who actually behaves differently now then she did earlier in the show. Rumpel, Hook, and Zelena the serial killers who have not changed at all and still treat everyone terribly do not deserve anything, but jail either. If they can get a "happy ending" then why not Regina. The whole evil isn't born, it's made is the stupidest thing i have ever heard. They may not have been born evil, but they certainly are evil now and them not killing anyone for a year or for five minutes, doesn't mean they should hang around, be part of the good side, and marry or babysit your children. The treatment of evil and villains on this show is ridiculous. All of them.