Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20150309010651/@comment-25926288-20150311034711

Rena Charming wrote: Eskaver wrote: The curse has no real rules. It goes as the plot demands. The only thing it truly and consistently does is travel to a land without magic. And apparently grant a wish, perhaps. Well, yeah, absolutely. :P We're basically trying to dissect and explain something that is highly inconsistent as it is. I mean, did Snow actually gather the hairs of the most wicked creatures in the land in order to cast her curse, like Regina did in 1.02? Where did Maleficent (or Sidney, or Pongo, for that matter) go during the year back in the Enchanted Forest? There are several unanswered questions and possible plot holes brought on by the very idea of the Dark Curse, that we're probably never ever gonna see resolved. So, if the writers don't bother, why should we? :P I know. I usually focus on the magic rules and stuff, but even in the continuity they just" it was many years ago" "Rumple is around 300, and Hook is around 300, and Hook is 385" Ursula a thousand year old goddess, now sea witch with tentacle powers and apparently mirror and statue powers since that happened around depowered Ursula walking the Earth, now young Ursula meets Hook".

The rules are loose, the story is loose. While we sit with mouths agape :O, the show do is lose. Audience interest, that is.

The show likes to tell, more than show character development and moments, yet can't tell us concrete rules. They write like a fairytale of old, whatever works best for the plot.