Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-25926288-20170514195858

DSP88 wrote: 1) But now you're talking about knowledge and not power.   And also it's weird when Regina sends Zelena to Oz that she has no object that belongs to Zelena.  Was she able to open the portal without one or was this just overlooked by the writers like a million other things?

It's not easy to know what takes skill and what doesn't. For example when Emma as the new dark one turned one of the dwarfs into stone. He remained like that for an entire episode until Regina freed him after learning the entire town was behind her and believed in her. My question is was freeing him something any magic user could do (then why didn't Blue or Regina do it earlier) or something only someone with great power could do? Sad thing is there is no way to know that answer but if we knew it it would go a long way to answer some questions. And I'll agree as we don't get details. Ironically, I think the writers started to realize that rather late. It's inconsistent sometimes. (Jane sometimes explains things outside of episodes which is nice. Like, if you notice, someone poofs out of nowhere and poofs an item from someone's hand. It happens alot. Jane pretty much stated a rule that you have to catch someone offguard to poof something out of their hand and once poofed. That at least explains why witches just stand there as if they can't do anything.)

So, it's random and depends on the plot often. The only assumption we have is that enough skill and knowledge can undo any spell...oops, I think that's true love. XD