I am absolutely in love with the television show Once Upon Upon a Time on ABC. It’s delightfully filled with characters we all know and love, but with new modern twists. It features a blend of old time, fairytale feel with, again, modernization. It’s got clever twists and turns every episode. And, perhaps my personal favorite, it features powerful women on both the sides of good and evil, as well as many other great women cast as characters.

But there’s one thing that the show has been falling short on lately, and for me that is the characterization of the evil queen, AKA Mayor Regina. I had to look up the mayor’s name. Isn’t that funny? She’s in every episode, but my husband simply refers to her as the mayor, while I call her the evil queen. She has no name that we know of in stories, and her name is forgettable on the show.

The other primary villain, however, is Rumpelstiltskin, a name we can all easily remember. Not only is his name memorable, but so is his character. Instead of making him simply an evil little man, he is provided with an intricate back story, including lost love, a lost child, and much tragedy. “Who wouldn’t wind up as evil as him!” you might think as you sniff over the latest detail, as we did in last week’s episode.

But the queen is another matter. We have only seen just how evil she is—evil enough to kill her own father to extract revenge on Snow White, who apparently did something that we don’t know to her sometime ago. (Not only am I getting antsy over what the hell that something was; I’m also a bit tired of Stiltskin being every villain in every tale. How about a different beast, or another fairytale monster to add some more fun in the mix?)

The queen lacks a real development of character. So far, all she seems like is pure evil—from her motives with a lover to the death of her father, the murder of the huntsman and the tricking of Hansel and Gretel, and every action and lie in between. Sure, we have evil characters who are just evil, but you would think that Rumpelstiltskin would be such a character—not the queen. Or the both of them, perhaps.

I am anxious to see a bit more development in the queen to see why she is who she is, and what led her to become this way. If she’s simply a homicidal maniac, well, not only is that less interesting, but it’s also unfortunate—as I had this show pegged as a fantastic Bechdel Test approved example that went even farther and really made women its centerpiece. With a developed green-skinned man and a simple psychotic witch, however, that may not be true.