Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150316010241/@comment-5106672-20150316151603

Eskaver wrote: One little nitpick I had was Maleficent's magic. Why did they make it seem like all she could do was turn into a dragon. She cast sleeping spells, energy balls, fireballs, protection spells, telekinesis, and teleporting so far on the show....and she gets captured by five guards. I can understand young Regina being caught, but Maleficent has an entire spell book and stuff and she acts like she is incapable. In that case, any commoner would have killed her and robbed her long ago.

I think the dragon thing was symbolic of her getting back into her powers: until that moment, she wouldn't have enough confidence to trigger her other powers.

Btw, what do you think made her retire once again in 1x02 / 2x22? Pregnancy? Or seeing how Phillip was rescued by Belle made her go “Okay, screw it, it wasn't worth the effort after all”?