Don't ruin it for me.

Okay, I still like OUAT but the last episode? Seriously? You writers are taking a potentially great villain character and turning her into someone who does stupid, illogical shit.

You all need to listen to ol' Xully here, for I am well versed in the likes of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and The Great Vizzini. A great villain needs to be cool and calculating and not ruled by emotion. One can be motivated by an emotion but if one is to be a successful villain the emotions must be kept in check. Also, a good villain must be engineer-like with the analytical skillz. You want Snow to feel pain like you felt pain? Then know when to seize upon an opportunity. If you're the Queen, it's better to be feared than loved but you never want to be hated. You must do devious things but maintain plausible deniability. Now, having Regina turn the guillotine blade into water and splashing Charming instead of letting King George do the ol' off with his head thing was a funny sight gag, but a real villain would have let Georgie whack him, then Snow would be devastated and Regina would have gotten some karmic revenge with clean hands and the old bastard King George would be to blame. Yeah, I know. That would mean the end of the series and the whole point is to keep people coming back.

And the whole thing with the poison apple turnover? The writers should have just had Regina say to Emma, "Here, try some of this delicious apple turnover!" and then have Regina hold it out and offer it. Most people would just take the thing and have a taste. Then BAM! ya got her. Keep it simple. Eliminate the variables. Not let her leave the house with it so that now there is a possibility that she won't eat it. (Which is exactly what happened. Henry eats the damn thing to prove a point.) Yeah, I know, attack of the plot device once again.

Of course, if I had the Queen's magic, it would be the shortest revenge story evah! All those great options at my disposal: blasting things with fireballs, turning things to stone, magic mirror CCTV, telekinesis, traveling through wormholes with Jefferson, etc., etc., etc. But I'd still settle for just having the Queen's wardrobe!