Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26342775-20150914132551/@comment-26184894-20150915031112

Kingfan22 wrote: CTrent wrote: ''She is very powerful. My guess is she is right up there with Rumplestiltskin.''

No, she wasn't. Zelena was simply very clever, like her mother and sister. But she was not as powerful as Rumplestiltskin. Magic isn't always about brute force. Why do you think the writers gave her such a huge weakness? if we follow what they said is her weakness, really anyone who can use true love magic can defeat Zelena( of course the ignored that because they needed to get back to storybrooke and Emma) there was nothing stopping snow white or David from removing the pendent.

I say that to say imo, Zelena was stronger than Rumple. the reason I believe this is twice we have seen zelena have something that rumple needed and twice he didn't get it. when the QOD had the glove he went back for it, but not with zelena. she stood right in his face and told him she had a way to end his century long quest to find his son and poofed away. She also had a potion to save his life. rumple never went to get those things and instead he choose to wait years so Regina could cast the curse and send robin to get the potion. Rumple could have easily went through the same portal robin did and got both the slippers and the potion, but he didn't. knowing how bad rumple wanted to get to Neal I would defiantly say there was a little fear on rumples end.

the show saying someone is powerful isn't enough because at one point the show said cora was powerful and she's basically at the bottom of the totem pole. Feats matter and rumple hasn't down or shown anything that even compares to zelena's feats. without that plot device there isn't anyone except Merlin and MAYBE the snow queen we have seen that Zelena can't beat one on one.