Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-26159109-20170515020842/@comment-24667994-20170518150157

At least when Zelena was defeated, there was some story mechanic behind it. She could only really be taken down with light magic. Emma was made powerless. So it had to be Regina's conversion to light magic that would save the day.

The BF's defeat was a farce, especially when one considers how much she'd be built up as the ultimate Big Bad. Even Rumple gave grave and dire warnings that she was the source of all dark magic. Heck, she showed that she could just conjure the Dark One dagger into her hand whenever it suited her. Rumple does her in with one spell in 5 seconds...oh, yeah, she's a danger...pfft.

I feel like her defeat needed to match the epicness of what was happening in the Enchanted Forest. That encounter just made her another villain of the month.