Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-25926288-20170616121707

Man, looking once more through some episodes, magic is quite the inconsistent pest.

Like, magic immobolization, Rumple no matter how powerful, was immobolized by Gideon's magic and Zelena's (in season 3 which she didn't have her pendant on, thus being a goof/plothole). Yet somehow, I'm suppose to think there's something called magic immunity.

Like surrounding a person in magic to choke them and restrict them, can do (See Hyde), but tossing some magic at them does essentially nothing (aka fireball or energy blasts). So, is magic choking so much more powerful than energy blasts that can vaporize a boulder? Likewise, using magic to bypass the physical body and rip out someone's heart and disintegrates them can happen, but I guess we're to assume that's even more powerful?

It's thing like this I find hilarious. We'd have to assume some spells must be stronger as the plot would deem so. So, Gideon and Zelena may be able to immobilize a powerful Rumple, but squid ink must be used to make sure they can stay immobolized longer. Fine. Thus, Rumple using squid ink on Fiona and Emma using squid ink on Rumple makes some sense. But then we have things like Fiona getting hit with a splash of magic and being moved with great force, yet the energy blast doesn't budge her one bit. (And she can be teleported by others)

Like logically that makes little sense. Immunity must have some sort of mental prep I guess, but they should deveop the concept of magical resistance. It's amazing that Gideon can immobolize the strongest being that's not a deity and Rumple being completely helpless.

A little rant that can be rationalized by us fans that the show should really get a hold on. Feats and statements too. Some of us use feats, some use statements, but that's generally because they don't tend to coincide often. Like under technicality, no deity really did anything too powerful, yet we place them above Rumple. Example--Jafar could do magic beyond the laws of magic, but that doesn't mean he could do anything big as compared to Merlin.