Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20180313032903

Bar the future episodes, It’s not too hard to see the uptick in magical macguffins. Not just the ones that get shown but are part of the plot, past or present. That alone was worrying as the magical macguffins became out of left field to resolve plots (like Ancient Wand that really did nothing, or the BF wand which was always around but brought up last second), or simply feel like a cameo or somethingplotsonething.

More than that was the Powerscaling. Basically, the Villains are often presented as a conflict by either comparing them to a major power player, or sidelining major power players. Now, we seemingly started off a soft reboot with a lot of non-magical heroes with villains far beyond their paygrade.

The Dark One can’t break Blood magic, but 5 witches can. The same Dark One that would be able to match Ingrid, Elsa, and Emma’s combined power. It’s really tough but maybe that can slide as they could be very powerful witches. Then we have Facilier presumably teleport Naveen to the LWM (or at least somewhere unreachable).

We get some superlatives like Leota, one of the most powerful beings in all the realms. Cool, then we have her and Gothel presumably stopped by an Enchanted Arrow which could be proofed away easily. Let that slide as that really wasn’t worth a fight or even showing as that was minor to the story they were telling. But...

“Oh my, Tremaine is gathering forces and tons of magical items and dark fairy dust.” Tremaine and the King’s Army isn’t too far fetched to face. Magical weapons, well, could be beaten off so let’s see if...”Oh, Tiana you led the resistance wonderfully to Tremaine’s defeat!” So, we saw nothing.

To sum it all up, quality (like the RNG Elephant) and quantity of macguffins aside, the conflict between the heroes and villains aren’t balanced and as what tends to happen, the villains should increase as the heroes do, but starting at 95% is far too high if the series continued. Perhaps it was meant to start of on an more equal footing with Tremaine, but by the time of the Coven, it hardly looks like Rumple stands a chance, logically. 