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BryantCabrera wrote: Toma Cre wrote: Regina said when that when Zelena died, her magic in the pendant no longer had a tether. So it broke loose and fulfilled her last wish - opening the time-travel portal. Right, I get that. But as stated above and in my original post, how could that failsafe be in place without the "ingredients" she spent all of 3B getting? >_> I really don't think that was the failsafe...because I usually thought failsafe was to protect the caster; maybe her 'husk' was the failsafe, since it seemed odd that Rumple could suddenly touch the blade that Zelena cursed, and killed her, leaving no body. Basically, she predicted and plotted her own death, Zelena is back in Oz plotting...heehee. the way they showed the circling magic near the portal was too sinister....I think Zelena may have created a porcelain puppet which allowed her to possess it from afar carrying a little bit of her magic with it. She is not stupid, this obviously took a lot of planning; she was going to get her way either by sacrificing her porcelain self (I think you can bend the words here for the spell to work) or use the baby. A baby would be preferable, since it does not involve Zelena sacrificing her puppet. If this puppet was able to survive and return to the past, Zelena would be able to control it from the future; this would allow her to be simultaneously in two spots in time--to make sure she gets the ending she likes by controlling the puppet (so no guess work). But the puppet was destroyed, which represented another method of getting what she wants: tricking everyone into thinking she's dead, and establish a connection with time travel through her puppet dust and magic sacrifice combo with a cherry on top: (kind of like what Cora was trying to do with the residual tree dust magic that brought Emma to storybrooke). However, this is a whole lot more sinister, because traveling between worlds is one thing....now she can travel between time?!? ;/ and she has the power to do it. So what of the pendant? well when Glinda told Zelena what this pendant did (weakness vs. strength), Zelena paused a bit; she recognized this weakness (I'd like to think). And with the same cunningness she used to trick Judy, she could have easily made this bad situation (weakness of tethered pendant) much more useful: ensuring that if destroyed, the magic will return to her with time travel extra, or she would be able to use it from the future to affect the past via puppet and side step this Glinda nonsense in the first place....meh....all this just boils down to the fact that I really like wicked and did not want to see her go........because I mean seriously, she could have returned to Oz to face the wicked witch of the west....which was her true quest until she was interrupted by Judy conveniently ...who is no witch, she's from Kansas. Glinda doesn't even know what really lies in the West...apparently it is a mystery. The whole thing there was suspicious...timed....and we still have no idea who caused the green cyclone to bring baby Zelena to oz.