Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150622205208/@comment-25926288-20150623120444

Yeah, they really missed out on Ursula. Ursula presumably absorbed the Trident's power but it didn't seem to make her anymoe powerful, just tentacles. (My theory is that Poseidon was still stronger han her, but still) Regina treated her as a non-entity and grouped her with Cruella who has one power.! (I didn't care much for seeing more since it would just be blowing smoke, but she did have control over Maleficent dragon.) Like we see Poseidon partially immobolize or force Hook's crew to no beable to raise their swords. He teleports via water and can enchant/ teleport things......and yet Urusla didn't show any of that. But maybe next season or two....

Zelena for all purposes doesn't seem to be that much more powerful than Regina so it won't be a sqaush, but we haven't seen what she could do versus what she could do with the pendant. Zelena without the pendant did normal glamours like Regina, they both could vaporize a person (Marian, Daniel), Both could immobolize a single target one by one. I can't wait to see more of her and hopefully with plenty of magical rage.

Regina's powers being mediocre doesn't bother me so much, but telekinesis and fireballs and that's what she shows. She's capable of sleeping spells like Zelena (against the lost boys and Gepetto and Pinocchio), causing a small earthquake, and a host of other spells. The show is downplaying her powers but I'll get to that in a moment.

Hand gestures are awesome. Most are a wave of the hand, but Cora's always have a slight touch. Croa had a partially closed hand when she used telekineis on Emma and the effects and Emma sold it as is Cora telekinetically punched her. Cora usually spins a bit when she teleports.

Example: Rumple raises a hand and Hook is pushed to the gate and then wrapped in the bars.

Versus Cora who, raised a hand and pushed Hook to the rock wall and then her hands mimicked closing doors inward and the rock binded his hands.

I could nbever compare powers to their potential because.....

The overpowered scale of magic. Regina was second to Rumple (who never showed and flashy powers, though he was plenty capable) in Season 1. Cora was a Regina-equivalent, just with more experience, but with being roughly equal to Regina seems like a big deal. Then season 3 happened and the OP villain started occuring. Pan was a villain we all should fear with great powers over imagination...even though he was easily defeated by Regina and would have been by Rumple if he was less fatalistic. Then OP villain Zelena that made Regina look like and amateur on about Emma's level. I mean Zelena just tk her through a protection spell and destroyed the protection spell with one wave of the hand. She was almost made to appear to be on Rumple's level (even if I highly doubt that.) Then Ingrid the next OP villain was besting both Emma who finally started using her magic and Regina with no problem at all. She could have defeated them! What is that? Ingrid shouldn't be that powerful that both Regina and Emma would be stopped like that. Elsa only knocked her down because she had no more hand available to choke her, lol. I'm certain if she had three that Elsa, Emma and Regina would have passed out from choking. Then there was the end to OP villains with the jokes that were the Queens of Darkness.

They should show some on-screen because Emma's always practicing off-screen and we never see her learning at all. We saw her learn to use fire and protection spells and a little of teleporting, but then .....Oh look I learned conjuration and healing offscreen. That's like on Charmed if Piper just had her freezing powers and one episode later she started exploding demons and they never really explain it. (But of course we know that they did explain it and show her learnng it.) I want to like light magic, but I don't know how she learned anything she's doing. I'm okay with her light magic blast and pulsing light wave, but how would she know healing magic and that it only heals on the outside.

But I'm quite satisfied as long as they make more and more rules and set-ups for doing magic.