Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24264679-20151028042323/@comment-25926288-20151029161627

CTrent29 wrote: This comes from the show's penchant for labeling magic in the first place. It's ridiculous and restrictive. The idea that Regina has a "smidge of Light magic" doesn't work for me. Regina is a powerful magic practitioner, period. Whether she is using her magic for good or evil, she is a force to be reckoned with - like Emma, Maleficent and Zelena. It would have been easier for the writers to accept the idea of magic being neutral and that the magic caster's intent and methods be judged.

And even a magic practitioner can still take down someone is more powerful by using his or her brains. This constant labeling of magic and the user is simply restrictive to me. And I also think it poor and lazy writing. Well, that too. Nevertheless, Regina isn't all that powerful and everyone is how the plot demands them to be. For example, Rumple said that Zelena is the most powerful sorceress he ever met and that was before the necklace, but she never showed much power without the necklace so far, but she even felt victim to Ingrid. That at least shows that weaker magic users can do stuff to stronger magic users, which why there is no need for Regina to be a stronger one, but a smarter one.