Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26392556-20150321102507/@comment-2153169-20150327124157

Well, look. Let's all forget the fourth Season and the Sea Witch. At the end of "Ariel", when the writers decided to add this statue scene to the episode it was to prove the Goddess was real, and decided to threaten Regina. That's how they worked with it and that's we all accept at the airing of the episode.

The proof is Merrin's casting, we were like "OMG they cast the Goddess!!!". To me, it is clear their message at the end of Ariel at the moment of its airing is the Goddess exists. That was the point of their scene and that's what they wanted us to know.

Yeah, after the latest ep we would wonder if it was not the Witch. But it would be a retco, and it is a BIG supposition. We just can't work and based our work on a speculation like an unconfirmed retco. To me, we have to do why what they wanted us to trust, and at the end of "Ariel" it was obviously the fact that the Goddess threatened Regina :)