Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24264679-20151028042323/@comment-4427410-20151029160948

This comes from the show's penchant for labeling magic in the first place. It's ridiculous and restrictive. The idea that Regina has a "smidge of Light magic". Regina is a powerful magic practitioner, period. Whether she is using her magic for good or evil, she is a force to be reckoned - like Emma, Maleficent and Zelena. It would have been easier to accept the idea of magic being neutral and that the magic caster's intent and methods should be judged.

And even a magic practitioner who is less powerful can still take down someone is more powerful by using his or her brains. This constant labeling of magic and its user is simply restrictive to me. And I also think it poor and lazy writing.