The delivery of this line is so interesting to me, the way Regina pauses in the middle of the sentence, and the camera cuts away from her:
She doesn't say "when it was just you, me, Robin Hood and Roland", which is how that sentence should flow, if she were saying it normally.
Instead, she said "when it was just you and me [PAUSE] Robin Hood and Roland."
"when it was just you and me" is a complete clause on its own. The pause makes it sound like the end of the sentence, and the camera cutting away adds to that.
If she intended to list off four people, there shouldn't have been an "and" between "you" and "me"
I very much comes across like she added "Robin Hood and Roland" as an afterthought.
It feels very much like it was shoe-horned into the sentence, the way that OQ was shoe-horned into the show. It also takes away from the emotional impact of the sentence, the way that OQ takes away from Regina's character.
Like, Regina feeling happiest when it was just her and Henry makes perfect sense, and is totally in character for her. Implying that she was happier with Robin Hood and Roland in her life than she was when it was just her and Henry contradicts pretty much everything they ever showed us on screen.
When was she so happy with Henry AND Robin Hood and Roland?? Because we didn't see that on screen. We saw her essentially having a short-lived fling with Robin until Marian came back, and then we saw her having a secret affair, knowing that it was doomed to fail... that's the level happiness she doesn't know if she'll ever have again?
It's also interesting that it's "you and me" "Robin Hood and Roland"... two separate groups. Regina is Henry's mom, and she was also dating Robin Hood, but the four of them did not form a family unit.
Like I know I'm reading too much into this, but any time I see this scene, I hear the first part and I'm like "aww" then I get blindsided by "Robin Hood and Roland" being tacked on the end, every single time.
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