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Hmcooper4 wrote:

However, All of this is based on a time-travel fix. and of all the tools in a writers arsonal, I find that using time travel as a plot device is generally very weak writing, and I hope that the OUaT writers don't go that way.

Oh I absolutely agree with that. Someone mentioned Supernatural and I think the whole time travel thing they introduced in Season 4 and onwards totally shattered the coherency of the plot lines.

The hard part about getting time travel correct is how to resolve all those paradoxes in a logical manner, and many a time the writers seemn to just ignore that completely.

Like even in this current scenario - Regina's heart is the one of the key ingredients for Zelena's spell to change the past such that Regina never existed. But no Regina equals no Regina's heart. So the spell couldn't have been cast in the first place...