Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150622205208/@comment-24008305-20150623161347

oh ok, I get what you mean by Cora's hand gestures. I do remember her telekinetic punch and that was awesome! Amara also used different hand gestures (like when she was facing off against Jafar's guards and then against Jafar himself). It definetly adds some flavor to the use of innate magic compared to simply waving your hand or gazing at something to make it move.

About Emma using healing magic...I agree, they could've explained it instead of having her learn it off screen (they're gonna wind up making her overpowered with these random powers she keeps pulling out of the rabbit's hat). But at the same time, they could've just showed it as a surprise moment. Maybe her emotion brought forth this powerful magic within her. I would've bought that.

All magic comes with a pice....I like the idea of this (especially in terms of "Equivalent Exchange" which is heavily featured in Full Metal Alchemist as the underlying rule for Alchemy, the show's version of magic) but with OUAT they sometimes don't show the full extent of this if any kind of price at all. Like with Snow's heart blackening and Snow & David sharing one heart. They made such a big deal about it yet we never see the fallout from it. I feel like the show spends so much time focusing on the flaws of the 'villains' that they forget the 'heroes' have flaws too. We finally started to see that with Snow & David during season 4b so I hope they won't flake out on us during season 5.