Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151109020125/@comment-25926288-20151109050027

GothicNarcissus wrote: Another thing that bothers me is… what has become of the Hat? I mean, clearly the whole Excalibur thing is shown as pretty crucial to Dark One-Emma with the Darkness within her urging her to go to great lengths to get it, but no previous Dark One seem to have ever bothered with it before. We've only seen Zoso first and Rumple then going after the Hat to rid themselves of the Dagger, but Excalibur didn't seem much of a priority to them.

So, why isn't Emma going for the Hat (with PLENTY of people who knew her before she got the curse to rip a heart from) to rid herself of the Dagger? Is it because Excalibur is a more powerful option? And why didn't the previous Dark Ones go after it? Was it because it wasn't available until Arthur took it out of the stone? Please, Once, do tell us. Throw a line of dialogue about that. You were doing so fine with continuity so far, why this slip now? It's because Excalibur didn't exist in the role it does now. The Hat currently blasted somewhere or appart when the Darkness escaped.

Still a plot point not discussed but if what we've seen is right, the DO is severely lacking power feats. Nimue and the DO is suppose to be as powerful as Merlin. Perhaps MErlin got the real dose while Nimue simply got normal levels of magic or something but there's no real reason why Nimue or any DO couldn't get Excalibur using trickery or something. But I guess it was fate.

What's weird is that the tethering was a potion (which probably can be broken) and then they all are supposedly equal to Merlin, but needed his hat to break the tethering. One would think that Emma would try to untether herself too. Even if the hat is destroyed, I'm sure they could make an untethering potion. We'll see...