My favourite new tag on tumblr has to be #this show exists so that we can fix it. And not fix it exactly, but explain it like this so suddenly you can go "ohhhhhhhhhh, I get it."

As said, Regina is a bad villain, if we're taking villain to be the traditional fairy tale line of evil for evil's sake. Because (and I'm blaming Regina's facial expressions for this one) she really is far too sympathetic, and we've already been given too much context (implied or otherwise) to make me believe that the Queen sprung from the womb all "let's go do some evil!" A self-destructive and hot-headed monomaniac makes so much more sense. It's far from handwaving her into the good guy camp, but it at least makes her understandable(ish).

Either way, I'm much more interested in a Once Upon a Time with an Evil Queen redemption arc and ol'Rumpie being the real machinating bad guy. Not least because most of Lana Parilla's acting choices make me want to give Regina a hug, whereas everytime Robert Carlyle does his nails-on-a-chalkboard Rumplstiltskin thing I have to refrain from punching my screen.