I'm glad she developed so many more dimensions after her first season!
The thing with OUaT is that a lot of the story is told in flashback, so finding out who she was took a while. And in the meantime, Lana was storming about in wonderfully OTT costumes and attitude ruining everybody's lives. I think as well I was a little unfair at the time, because everyone had been singing Lana Parrilla's praises (understandably) and it took me a while to see it, and then, of course, it was always there.
(The fundamental difference between Regina and Rumple as villains is that Rumple is a coward who clings to power and is too scared to let it go despite wanting to at times, whereas Regina will push herself to lengths that anyone with more sense of fear and self-preservation would have drawn back from, and I enjoy that contrast in them.)
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The thing with OUaT is that a lot of the story is told in flashback, so finding out who she was took a while. And in the meantime, Lana was storming about in wonderfully OTT costumes and attitude ruining everybody's lives. I think as well I was a little unfair at the time, because everyone had been singing Lana Parrilla's praises (understandably) and it took me a while to see it, and then, of course, it was always there.
(The fundamental difference between Regina and Rumple as villains is that Rumple is a coward who clings to power and is too scared to let it go despite wanting to at times, whereas Regina will push herself to lengths that anyone with more sense of fear and self-preservation would have drawn back from, and I enjoy that contrast in them.)