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Stonicus wrote: AndrewScott wrote:

Stonicus wrote:

Johntoxable wrote:

Toma Cre wrote: Well, the writers tend to play very fast and loose with the rules of magic. I mean you have three basic rules of magic that can't be broken, except sometimes they can under certain conditions. Yeah, they really do, and it's really gotten worse this season.

Indeed... I'll accept any rules they give us as long as they stick to em. What's the point of even having rules if they can just be broken so willy-nilly? Best example, Regina used magic to bring David back to life when Snow crushed his heart. In this case, Regina\Snow acted quickly enough to split Snow's heart in half, and put half of it back into David. That's the kind of crap we're talking about. THAT is the exact definition of playing hard and fast with the rules. She crushed his heart. He died. Magic brought him back. If even one other time in the history of the show they had shown or implied there was some sort of "time limit" on being able to fix a crushed broken heart, that'd be different. This is just a violation of their own rules and a deus ex machina, the ultimate sign of lazy writing.

Where was it ever implied that this specific 'magic' of heart splitting was impossible to do? Although I will grant that this does smack of deus ex machine.

Note that the taking out the heart has been in a lot of folklore and fairytales. Here's an interesting discussion on the matter from 2006. http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/boardarchives/2006/aug2006/takinghearts.html