Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150622205208

I always like disecting the magic system on Once, even if it rarely makes consistent sense. But I realized some hints and other things.

I always questioned recently "Why does the Apprentice always says spells out loud, when we even saw the hat incantation performed by Regina had no talking at all?"

I realized that it was not unlike that of BBC Merlin or other magic in some other shows. Instead of usuing another language, they had the audience know the words the Apprentice was using and help direct the story, just with flowery English instead.

However, this isn't the first time. Jafar often used TV's most overrated language of Latin to perform spells.

Jafar used "Fiat Lux" to creat Fire on his staff vs EF's wave of the hand/ fireball.

Jafar has a soul rip vs the EF heart rip and the Neverland shadow rip.

Jafar used potions to achieve the effects of transfiguration for others stuff versus hand wave of EF.

Jafar used latin in most of his spells, includiong trying to use the powers of the three geenies to overcome the laws of magic.

Just some interesting notes. It's not a surprise that I like the Agrabah style more and even the Apprentice does some things like that even though he could just rip the heart out and suck the darkness into the hat, he chants a spell instead of the silence and hand waves we usually see.

It was also interesting as seeing that regina got the plant control spell from absorving the spell from the book versus Cora who didn't have the power over plants because she never absorbed it, only blew it off the pages.

This also counts as why I don't consider Jafar as powerful as the others, lol. Any comments, or whatever discussionor questions, post below! (This helps in fanfics and just general info!) 