Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170313005929/@comment-1916997-20170314195137

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: My criticism is validated by the show puting the question "How come Pleasure Island has electricity while FTL hasn't shown any signs of having electricity?" and failing to answer the question. And I gave an answer: Magic. Has it not been shown that FTL has lots of magic? Can magic not replicate what we would call electricity? Not really. Magic and Technology aren't indirectly related, but typically are. As I put in my post, there should be at least some reaction to it, especially since whenever someone from FTL goes to Storybrooke they don't understand technology. You guys are getting caught up in the look of things. A good example is Harry Potter. The wizards have a technology like muggle radio, but instead of using radio waves, like muggles do, it uses magic. The effect is nearly the same, you have stations you can listen to, that include a variety of subjects, from music to politics. So the mechianics are different, but the end result is the same. Same thing could be happening here. It looks like electricity, but runs on magic. I'm not going to derail the thread with how the magic system of HP is pretty terrible, but minor details makes a god experience to great.

"Because magic" cannot be an explanation when the EF folk are living in trees and rocks, while they sit around and in their small feudal like region that has great population distubances. If Robin or Aurora are confused by demon boxes, then it's clear that they have no idea what electricity is. Snow even mentions how in SB they at least have electricity. Even Zelena remarks on the backwards conditions of Dunbroch (which is hardly different from EF/Camelot/Agrabah) and Oz actually does have electricity (mostly due to Walsh, I guess).

The issue isn't about how it could work. It can. However, acknowledging it in show is better than headcanoning things. It is electricity (because magic and electricity aren't mutually exclusive). What I hope is that this isn't the last time we hear of Pleasure Island and we get more of it. But then again, I thought we'd get more of the LoUS. Yeah, I get it. I hope we get more on it too. I guess it just didn't bother me as much as other people because we have seen so many types of societies in FTL, and also, as you point out, it's not like our own world has one set society or equal level of technology (compair something like New Your City to a small village in Africa, and people would hardly believe it's the same planet, much less at the same exact time).