The series hasn't confirmed that Regina had Marian killed in the original timeline.
Marian was already in Regina's clutches when Emma and Hook arrived. Regina was already parading her around as an example of what defying the Queen looks like. Marian's plea to the villagers was, "Please! She's going to kill me!" No, we didn't see the firing squad, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Regina was indeed the one who'd killed Marian, regardless of what Robin thought. I personally don't believe Regina was going to have a change of heart and let her prisoners go. Marian was dead woman walking.
Either way, Regina prevented this woman from returning to her family by imprisoning her in the first place, all because she wouldn't help her with her vendetta to kill another human being. Regina was wrong here, too, and I have a hard time seeing Emma saving this woman's life as a bad thing, no matter how hard things may become for Regina. This is the kind of thing that happens when you indiscriminately imprison and kill other people, Regina. She didn't care about the family she was breaking up by holding this woman prisoner, not until it affected her.
They changed the timeline . . . and that was wrong.
But they didn't. Not really. In the original timeline, Marian is executed. In the new timeline, Marian escapes and disappears without a trace. Either way, there is no Marian in the past. Had they left Marian there, then yes, it would have been Biff Tannen with Gray's Sports Almanac. Bringing her forward was their way of stealing the almanac back from Biff before he owned all of Hill Valley.
Little Roland running into the arms of the mother who was stolen from him is not wrong to me, and that's something that only happened because Emma saved her and brought her forward.
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Date: 2014-07-30 07:46 pm (UTC)Marian was already in Regina's clutches when Emma and Hook arrived. Regina was already parading her around as an example of what defying the Queen looks like. Marian's plea to the villagers was, "Please! She's going to kill me!" No, we didn't see the firing squad, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Regina was indeed the one who'd killed Marian, regardless of what Robin thought. I personally don't believe Regina was going to have a change of heart and let her prisoners go. Marian was dead woman walking.
Either way, Regina prevented this woman from returning to her family by imprisoning her in the first place, all because she wouldn't help her with her vendetta to kill another human being. Regina was wrong here, too, and I have a hard time seeing Emma saving this woman's life as a bad thing, no matter how hard things may become for Regina. This is the kind of thing that happens when you indiscriminately imprison and kill other people, Regina. She didn't care about the family she was breaking up by holding this woman prisoner, not until it affected her.
They changed the timeline . . . and that was wrong.
But they didn't. Not really. In the original timeline, Marian is executed. In the new timeline, Marian escapes and disappears without a trace. Either way, there is no Marian in the past. Had they left Marian there, then yes, it would have been Biff Tannen with Gray's Sports Almanac. Bringing her forward was their way of stealing the almanac back from Biff before he owned all of Hill Valley.
Little Roland running into the arms of the mother who was stolen from him is not wrong to me, and that's something that only happened because Emma saved her and brought her forward.