Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180516203306/@comment-1826156-20180517164819

Whoever added the Candy Killer plot and made it a focus should be ashamed. I don't think the idea in itself was bad, but it wasted valuable time that could have easily been used as time to flesh out all of the witches somewhat. I mean, we saw Seraphina for like 2 minutes total and we still had an idea of who she was. They could have spent 10 minutes on each witch, if even that, and still had time for more story.

Magic has always had inconsistencie in this show. Most of the time I overlook it as the characters not having all the facts or even some characters finding new ways to use it. TLK, for example is supposedly a pretty rare thing and then in season 6 everyone is getting TLK and it can cure anything, even death, seemingly.

I think you pretty much summed up the problems in your list.

The Oz witches may have been powerful, but we never got to see them do anything but have tea and talk about how cute Dorothy was. I got the feeling from them if there were four of them and they set their minds to it, they could accomplish a lot. But then we see Zelena casually banish Glinda from Oz and never hear about the others again. (assuming the GWN and WWN are two separate beings. They could have possibly pulled off time travel, but I don't think they ever would have.

Curse of the Eternal Grove was not explained or built up very well at all. I wasn't impressed,

The Dark Curse is like TLK, it seems the writers have abandoned any real meaning to it now. Regina's sacrifice was meaningful and dark, but since then we've seen others cast it without any real issue. (Pan loved himself more than anyone and Felix's loyalty was suddenly enough. Snow casts it without actually losing anything). The Dark Curse is a joke at this point.It doesn't surprise me at how easily they do it. Also, since when does having done it in the past enable you to recast it without further sacrifice? If taht was true, couldn't Regina have cast it again instead of Snow using Charming's heart?