Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20160119214649/@comment-25926288-20160407011805

Just saw the sneak peek. I know not many are sucked into the magicbuilding, worldbuilding, and tiny details like me, but I glas that they finaly did some thing right regarding magic!

No one might notice, but they tend to literally hand wave magic and while it's cool, it doesn;t tell us how it functions beyond "I want to turn this person to stone, so there....you're stone". In essence, the magic then becomes overpowered because there seems to be limits, but undisclosed to us.

After Regina's last big moment of freeing the fairies, which was an incantation that had an accompanying ritual in which Regina said nothing and did nothing but wave the dagger around the hat on an altar with scribbles, I think this de-protection spell is a welcome gift. Even if the symbols may be "squiggly lines" to some, they are meaningful to me! Actually this is the only time we've seen a protection spell being taken down like this (aka with effort). Other times, Rumple or Cora or Zelena would point there hand at it really hard or flick their wrist, or like Hook with a vial of magic, or randomly with a big fireball. This makes much more sense and actually make protection spells actually seem like they are really protecting and not a minor inconvenience.