Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde disappointment

Rewatching the show and am I the only person disappointed with how they handled Jekyll and Hyde.

I mean the entire point of that character is they’re one in the same two sides of the same coin but casting two actors to play that role and then splitting them into two characters I feel kind of defeats that purpose, Hyde doesn’t feel like Jekyll’s dark side he feels like his own separate character the only thing connecting these two is the fact we know what story they originated from.

It also felt unnecessary to then give this exact story of inner turmoil to Regina, why did we need Jekyll and Hyde if you were just going to give Regina essentially the same story. They’ve combined multiple characters in the past, I mean rumplestiltskin is like 4 fairytale characters in one so if you were giving Regina the Jekyll and Hyde story why even introduce them as separate characters.

And then minor other pet peeve is introducing Jekyll and Hyde and then not tying them into Frankenstein and more classical literary monsters was such a missed opportunity, land of untold stories was an interesting concept but I would’ve much preferred an arc dedicated to gothic horror or more literary characters from 19th and 20th century stories explore a side of fiction and that hasn’t yet been touched. Because most of the fairytale characters we had explored from that point are much older mostly being set in a loose 16th - 18th century time period for their worlds.