Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1475805-20150331011255/@comment-25926288-20150409115649

Ok, one post at a time.

1) Pause. Rumple was hit with a heavy dose of dreamshade which he can not heal under his own power. He was weakened to a great extent prior to reaching Storybrooke that even attempting to use magic could kill him. So, in the case of Rumple's immortality, he is immortal when their is magic. He has magic again, so he is immortal, which means he can't die of old age unless he was on the deathbed and so weakened he would die that instant before entering Storybrooke. Plus, long lived beings don't rapidly age in LWM. Ursula is almost as old as Hook and she didn't rapidly age and die of old age (she is like 200). Neither Hook nor Neal died even though they are 200+ years. So, the same would go for Rumple.

2) I agreed with you, lol. So moving on...

3) Emma's probably a poor choice for an example on my part. What I was going for is, Rumple channels power through the dagger (Dagger absorbs power, Rumple has magic). The dagger also is similar to a wand, since he sometimes uses it for spells. Example, Blue Fairy used her wand and blue light engulfed August and turned him into Pinocchio. Rumple used his dagger and blue light engulfed (likely just undoing her spell) and Pinocchio turned into August.

4) Ok, it's wonderful to support someone's theory. I was just curious to see if those questions could be answered.

5) I'll agree with you that magic might be needed to destroyed. I wonder though if the dagger is magic, then what Rumple said likely holds true "Magic isn't destroyed, only changed forms."

6) I know what Glinda said but she also said her magic wasn't strong enough, but she didn't try or had the chance to do so. She also said the strongest purveyor of light magic can defeat Zelena, but Regina did instead. Light magic was said to be needed to remove the pendant, but it wasn't used. Zelena was blasted and stunned, then Regina ripped the pendant off her. Light magic was only needed to go against Zelena's powers since I doubt she'll just let them close to her.

I understand the principle you are going for and I'd agree, but that wasn't shown in that battle. Maybe if Light magic was used and it blasted the pendant, then fine. However, it didn't remove it Regina's hand did that. If we go by that principle, Regina's singular hatred was greater than or equal to three sister's love (lol, then how did she think she'd defeat Rumple if that bond was so weak) and that Regina's weakened love is greater than or equal to Zelena's (powerful) hatred.