Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151206080320/@comment-11464223-20151206160500

Eskaver wrote: Yeah, but I would say that at least they had a reasonable excuse and now they have a reason why they can have magic beans going forward.

I think I'm more sick of realm travelling devices, random macguffins, and magical inconsistencies.

1. Everything has a way to other worlds except for Rumple and it negates how special Jefferson was. Rumple should have ripped his shadow off and picked up Bae and returned home. Plot-Induced Stupidty really makes me mad. I mean Bae was in Neverland for much of his time and Rumple never even knew he was there. How did he think he was alive?

2. A helm that make people fight your battles? What? Can magic just do anything you want it too? Can we just enchant a rock that makes people think it talks? Can we just enchant a blade of grass to kill people in their sleep? I need consitencies and not whatever you think the plot needs.

3. Healing potion for Rumple was a bunch of ingredients plus something that touched him when he was a man. Emma used the last ingredient, but none of the rest (besides the fact that that sword didn't ever touch him.). Even worse is Zelena looking at a tethering potion and simply waving her hand, while we saw Merlin who is much more powerful use a cauldron. We see Merlin put the sword into the stone while Hook just casually poofed it back there.

I love to study the magic and rules and stuff, but they clearky just make it up for whatever convenience they wish. Like Zelena saying Regina could poof into a sword. Since when has poofing ever do anthing like that? Couldn't agree more -- for the most part.

I do think that that was a good reason to get magic beans back, but... It's still going to piss me off when they pop up again.

Lmao, the whole "How did Rumple know that Bae was alive after 200 mofoin' years" is a massive, massive plothole that's never explored or explained. I completely agree, it's a gaping issue with the show.

Well, about that -- Fun little tangent, but have you ever read Sanderson's Laws of Magic in Fantasy? There's three... I can't remember which one it is, but the most important one (in my opinion) says something like, "The power of Magic and its limitations in a work of fantasy has to be directly proportional to how much the characters know about it." For example, take Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, where magic can seemingly do just about anything -- like on ONCE, but it's made explicitly clear that the characters are largely kind of clueless when it comes to it.

ONCE, on the other hand, well... ONCE doesn't adhere to that law so well, and that, I think, is one of its biggest issues.

Lol, agreed, Zelena is NOT more powerful than friggen Merlin XD

Again, agreed. I love to study the stuff, but it's not fun when there's no rhyme or reason to it.