Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26198810-20150918232135/@comment-1916997-20150926140012

Eskaver wrote: FrancisPaul wrote: Farerb wrote: FrancisPaul wrote: But then, the Apprentice himself is pure dark? as he can wield the wand?

Or he was able to use the wand only because LILY was pure dark?

BTW, why can't they have Lily using the wand instead of crazily dangerous bloodthirsty Zelena? Lily's blood worked for the ink, she should be the dark required to save Emma. Because then it would actually make sense. Yeah, wouldn't it? I hate how they do that kind of stuff. 3B is the worst thing that ever happened to Once, followed by 4B - you can see anything with Zelena turns out to be far-fetched to serve the plot. They could at least consider Lily, you know, like they think "What about Lily?" Then someone adds "No, the wand requires someone that has cast a spell before, which she hasn't". Something like that, anything that shows that at least the characters are not dumb, because ANY real-life poeple on their situation would try to get help from Lily. What does 3b deal with them using Zelena over Lily? IF Zelena wasn't around they still wouldn't use Lily. It's not Zelena, it's just poor plot planning (3Ps). Zelena not working out fully in their plans isn't because she's an uber powerful character, but that they use contrivance over anything else. They just don't actually want to use Lily. If they didn't give her that father plot, I'm sure we wouldn't see her or Mal again.

Actually, we can ask that any other means can be used. They are just going to the EF, so they could use the Door in the Sorcerer's mansion or the thousands of other ways to go back home. I'm sure even without Lily, we'd still see Mal at least once more, for the Briar Rose and Mal fight, but yeah a lot of the things they do is odd.