Once Upon a Time (TV Show) discussion

Way to ruin all the deepness in Regina's character and turn her into a shallow psychopath.
I'm only ten minutes into the episode and it's driving me crazy.
I think the writers don't understand that the whole point of a CONFLICT is to have two EQUALLY good or bad sides. Not one side which is good and one side which keeps on saying it's good while the directors and writers show all her evil evilness. Really? Way to turn Regina into a crazy woman who is positive she is doing good while blatantly doing bad [mass murdering, planning mass murder, etc]. What exactly is the point in that?
Last season and earlier on in this season, Regina was turned into someone very very human who made a few mistakes, was aware of them, and was trying to fix them and make a change for the better. Now she's just complaining about how she's only evil because the true evil people are loved by everyone.
Now, this really could work, if she didn't mention planning to murder all of Storybrook one sentence later.

What's so wrong with keeping things complicated and having two gray sides instead of one pitch black and one pure white side? Haven't we passed the age of three? Can't we expect anything deeper from a show that tries to tell the oldest stories in a new light, but instead chooses to show these stories in the most shallow, one sided interpretation of them?

I would say I'm hoping for better further on the episode, but I can't keep my hopes up. Rant over for now...

Right. Regina is looking for Snow and she by *chance* ends up alone with Snow for two days?

Anybody else have a problem with science being able to prevent magic? I'm so hoping these two new interlopers do get sucked into the fairy tale world and meet an ogre. This was not one of the better episodes. It's going to be interesting to see where things go from here.

I'm really not liking Owen and Tamara. The whole idea of them is plain annoying, and the writers are trying to turn them into pure 'evil', but for some reason this isn't working very well when it comes to regular people and not fairy tales. They just come off as incredibly slimy. OUAT has officially degraded into shallow black and white good verses evil.

Yea I was kinda disappointed about this episode too, the show has always been in someway grounded and following its own rules, but hopefully it'll pick up, good shows always have some bad episodes.

This... was a frustrating episode. A) because Regina was so boring evil in it and B) because Tamara and Owen actually succeeded at something... I liked the whole idea of them being worthless wannabe heroes...

It's ok, they're worse than worthless wannabe heroes. Did you hear their faith talk in one of the episodes. Ridding the world of evil magic? Smiting it out? I do hate that talk.