Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-173.251.92.250-20130325154637/@comment-7302713-20130401193817

Hybridman wrote: okay both your arguments don't make any sense,he wasn't on fire so it didn't kill him.and how did she get a magic tazer,it wasn't magic that killed the dragon,he was a old man so having electicity blasted through his heart would have killed him.bt August is made of wood hence the tazer shouldn't have effected him.i think Spy was pointing out a plot hole First off, "magic tazer" is describing the quality of the tazer. It's saying that it isn't a regular old tazer and that there's something special about it.

You say that itt wasn't magic that killed the dragon. But we don't know that. We saw her hold something that looked much like a tazer and kill the dragon with it. But we don't know any of the mechanisms. Maybe what's magic about the tazer it that it gives her access to magical creatures. The dragon was mid-transformation---maybe an ordinary tazer wouldn't have been able to land on him. Or if it could, maybe he would have been able to suck the energy into him and be able to use it as a weapon. Maybe this tazer that she has sucks the magic from magical creatures. Or maybe it just kills them. We know basically nothing about it, other than that it killed August and the Dragon and that it's magic.

We know that it's magic both because it killed August, and because the writers have said so. And even if the writers hadn't said anything, the tazer killing August still wouldn't have been a plot hole. This is a story about a world with magic. We don't know anything about the physics of wooden men. Maybe the electrical charge from a regular tazer disrupts any spellwork if it's touched to a magical creature. Saying that it can't kill him ir silly. We don't know anything. We apply the rules we're given them as we're shown them. And in the last episode we were shown that August was killed by what appeared to be a tazer. And saying that if OUAT was real August wouldn't have died is ridiculous. It's just plain silly to assume that things work the same way we know them to work.

If we see someone holding a cane we don't know if it's an ordinary cane or a magic cane until we're told one way or the other.

Also, btw, has anyone considered that it might be more fun to just watch the show? You know, not actively look for plot holes and stuff. Any show we watch requires some suspension of belief. A show including magic requires a bit more. That might come easier if people didn't watch the shows while actively attempting to disect them and undermine them.