Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151130020049/@comment-1894786-20151201015041

Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:

Meanwhile, there's no way in hell (LOL) Merlin would have any ingredients for such a dark spell in his cauldron when he practices only light magic. He was doing a communication spell. Of course not.... Merlin only had a spell book, with the ingredients to destory Light magic. He also forged his apprentice's wand, with both Light and Dark magic. Elliot Knight even referred to Merlin, as being ambiguous.
 * Being a scholar doesn't mean he's a practitioner. Someone who writes psychology books about the mentality of serial killers isn't a serial killer.


 * We have yet to see how that wand was forged, for all we know it could've been a branch blasted by both Nimue and Merlin during a struggle, since one needs equal amounts of each.


 * Elliot is right. Merlin is very ambiguous. But that's in his being mysterious and vague, not in his polarity. He's very much been shown as being a hero.

And it doesn't change the fact that the cauldron couldn't possibly have the ingredients needed to cast the Dark Curse, nor was Hook shown to have collected them at any point. Hook went a way and Emma had to eventually summon Hook that is probably when Hook tp'ed to Regina;s castle or Rumple's and took some ingredients.

I'd have to rewatch to know if he would've had enough time for it, but yeah. Seems like "it happened off-screen" is now A&E's excuse for everything.