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Johntoxable wrote:

The ease with which Zelena tethered Merlin to Excalibur was a little offputting. If such things are that simple, why arn't there hundereds of people floating around tethered to random objects.

The vault of the Dark One business is similarly jarring. I can only think that perhaps Lumiere was either mistaken or that he was fed false information from Zelena about the DO Vault being where the first DO was made. But both those possibilities have their own issues. If Lumiere was mistaken about the vault, then from what is he basing the assumption that it's the birthpace of the first Dark One? If it was Zelena who told him this, the question is why? That little tidbit has no bearing on why Belle and Neal wanted to go there. There's little need to bring it up, really. So no reason for Zelena to cajole Lumeire into announcing this fact.

Don't forget that Zelena is the strongest magic user to have ever come into existence. That's been established multiple times. She may not have her pendant anymore (which elevated her to god-like status), but she's still probably on the level of DO Rumple (this episode established that DO Emma is far stronger, probably on the level of Nimue and Merlin).

As for the Vault of the Dark One, I think it's just a literal vault that Nimue created as her hideout. How Ink Monster relates to it all, I don't know.

To me the biggest error in this episode is Merlin being 700 years old and the Dark One being created during Rumple's lifetime. Didn't Zoso say way back in season 1 that he'd been around for centuries? I might have to rewatch, but I'm pretty sure.