Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24301813-20161128052817/@comment-31828520-20171130231030

Ardiz wrote: Zelena might be more powerful than Regina, but Evil Queen is something else. When fighting, it is not just about power, but as I understand it, also about skill, experience and how fast can one attack and deffend themselves.

In 3x16 Regina's only good move in the fight against Zelena was when she threw the traffic light at Zelena, but she reacted fast and deffended herself. And then Regina's performance was, well ... bad: conjuring up a fireball but instead of throwing it, she was just holding it in her hand, literally asking for Zelena to remove it and get the upper hand against Regina. In 3x19 Regina was paralyzed by Zelena who was faster raising her hand and then later thrown away by Zelena in Storybrooke's docks, though there Zelena did not have to raise her hand to throw Regina so high as Regina had to, since Zelena was already holding Henry and just had to move her hand up a little, while Regina had to go with them up the whole way. And it seemed Regina was focusing to remove Henry from Zelena, while Zelena directly attacked Regina. Only in 3x20 in the hospital it seemed Regina was faster to raise her hand to do whatever she wanted to Zelena, but it didn't work (probably because Zelena's amulet was protecting her against any magic that was not light magic).

But in 6x9, Evil Queen, who is not so "soft" as Regina, she conjures a fireball and immediately throws it, she doesn't play games. Saying Zelena did not want to fight or just gave up doesn't seem to be good reason enough. Zelena fights, even if she knows she cannot win, especially when she has a child to raise and love.

And we also saw in 6x18 Regina throwing Zelena with magic, since she realized just holding her physically had no sense. Just because Zelena is supposed to be more powerful than Regina doesn't mean Regina / Evil Queen cannot defeat her. Regina just went soft (another example is Regina vs Black Fairy in 6x19, when instead of attacking Black Fairy, Regina did nothing, just talked and sneered and that was it, then suddenly was attacked by Black Fairy). I agree 100%. The Evil Queen IMO can take on basically anyone and win with the exception of those who are destined to be destroyed by someone (Black Fairy) or are immortal (Dark One). Regina on the other hand can't even get out of her own way it seems a lot of the time. I think it's a confidence issue. The Evil Queen is full of confidence and she shoots fireballs first and asks questions later. While Regina is more hesitant in her actions and that usually lets whomever she's fighting get the upperhand. But as I and many others have said, it's also due to the plot. When the Evil Queen was the villain the show made her powerful. We were basically told that other than Rumple, no one was more powerful than the Evil Queen in all the realms. When her redemption story arc started they had to tone down her powers or else she would easily be able to defeat any new villain that popped up. My only issue is that they made Zelena TOO powerful in her story arc and IMO it's messed some things up. In 3B they made Zelena basically untouchable but in 6B in a flashback we see that Zelena had a lil trouble beating the lion for crying out loud. In one 6B episode we see the Evil Queen on the verge of killing Zelena yet a few episodes later we hear the Black Fairy say that Zelena is the stronger of the two. The show has absolutely no consistency when it comes to people and their magical abilities.