Really,
Regina? THAT’S why you had it out for
Snow White this whole time? Okay sure,
it was pretty boneheaded of her to go blabbing about you and Daniel to Cora, particularly
after you warned her about your psychotic mother. I won’t deny that. But… shouldn’t you, I don’t know, be angrier
at the woman who manipulated a ten-year-old girl’s feelings about losing a
mother? You know, the woman who actually
killed the guy you loved? You knew
perfectly well how your mother was coco for cocoa puffs. You’ve known that for what must have been
your whole life. (Seriously, this woman
makes the stereotypical overcritical soccer mom look good.) But Snow didn’t know what Cora really
was. How could she? I mean, the cumulative amount of time they’d
spent together at this point was, what, five minutes? Put credit where credit is due, lady! Yes, I understand you’re upset and
heartbroken about losing Daniel, and you have every right to be. But this happened when Snow was 10. Seeing as she’s now an adult, sometime has
passed. Add the 28 years the curse has
been in effect to that, and you get, what, 48 years, give or take? You’d think that at some point during that
time, your anger would have lessened just slightly enough for you to get some
perspective. But then again, what do I
know? Anyway, it was beautifully tragic to see Regina’s interactions with the young
Snow White, and how they clearly could have been friends if circumstances
hadn’t gotten in the way and messed it all up.
(How ironic was it that it was Regina of all people who first educated
Snow about true love?)
Meanwhile,
in Storybrooke, August steps forward to help Emma locate evidence that proves
Mary Margret’s innocence. (Here, we also
get our first clue that something is wrong with August when his leg starts to
bother him.) With Henry acting as a
lookout, the pair sneak into Regina’s garage and find a broken shovel that
matches a shovel fragment they uncovered in the hole where Kathryn’s heart was
found. But when Emma comes back with a
search warrant to legally find the broken shovel, she finds that the shovel had
been removed. Reasonably frustrated, she
lashes out at August, believing that he’d betrayed her by tipping Regina
off. Without that crucial bit of
evidence, as well as Mary Margret’s disastrous meeting with the DA (oh, so
you’ve got King George’s Storybrooke counterpart to interview her, Regina? As in, the person who shares your distain for
Snow White? Well, this just gets better
and better, doesn’t it?), Emma cannot do anything to keep Mary Margret from
being taken to trial. To add insult to
injury, Emma then discovers Sidney Glass had placed a bug in her office, hidden
within a vase of flowers, and realizes that was how Regina was tipped off that
they knew about the shovel. Contrite,
Emma seeks out August to apologize for doubting him. At that moment, Ruby finds a very alive
Kathryn in the alleyway behind Granny’s Diner.
Which, of course, is going to help throw the whole case against Mary
Margret out. How can you have murdered
someone who isn’t dead?
So, was
Regina right in blaming Snow for what happened to Daniel? I suppose it depends on who you ask, but I
personally think it was a tad unreasonable of Regina to carry around her grudge
for so long. Yes, Snow was wrong to
break her promise about keeping the secret, but she was a ten year old girl,
and no matter which way you look at it, Cora manipulated her into sharing the
secret by taking advantage of her childlike naivety. Besides, Regina and Daniel could have run
away right after Snow White found out about them. What was stopping them from leaving that very
night? The scene with Snow and Cora
seemed to be taking place during the daytime, which gave me the impression that
Regina didn’t cut and run right after her conversation with Snow White and
waited until the following evening to try and leave with Daniel. I can understand Regina might have wanted to
say goodbye to her father, seeing as he’s the parent who obviously, unlike
Cora, loves her unconditionally, but she could have left him a note. It couldn’t have been because she was hoping
to get Cora’s approval, because I’m sure Regina knew that was never going to
happen. Again, what was stopping them
from setting off that very night?
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