Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150722161423

It's common to jump higher and higher in the circumstances the characters face, from small town politics, to witch, to imagination, to an even more powerful witch, then to a force of nature, and then Darkness itself.

But seeing in the finale, Merlin seems dumb. If the Quill and ink can write the Darkness out if existence, why is it running around free? Why find a vessel when you can literally warp reality? If the hat can't contain it, why not Pandora's box? He could have easily tossed the Dark One into the hat or Pandora's box, then toss it in a bottomless void and be done with it.

He could have wished it away with the wishing star. Does it even effect the real World? If not, just toss it there.

I know they need a plot, but with so many options, I can't see how this could have been an issue for a realm jumping, foreseeing, and god-like Sorcerer and the other deities and reality warping, cosmic entity stoping artifacts. 