Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170320005548/@comment-25926288-20170320205818

Looking back, yep, the writers of the flashback treated the dagger differently than presented previously. (I assume one writer rights the flashback and the other writes the present) As a person who takes note of these things (sadly as the magic system is...), the writer has Rumple carry around the dagger as if it's a wand. He never is shown to magic without it. Thus, this is why I feel that with the LOTR references, I think the writer wasn't clear on how the dagger functions. It's the same way with "Sisters" where Cora randomly had a wand as if mages in Once need to use wands. That was less weird because we do have wand users (even though they can use magic without wands).

On any other note, Beowulf was okay. Great actor and Beowulf was an arrogant heroic person so I see that sticks. Plus, they didn't retcon the Grendel from Wonderland as there was no beast. Perhaps the term "Grendel" is some derogatory term in EF.

'Emma is really being shafted in an arc that's suppose to be about Saviorology. Hopefully that changes soon.