Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27603417-20150629061625/@comment-25926288-20150629211156

I agree tooo, but they also used "magic is different" for a host of reasons. Their forms will remain their cursed forms until the curse was undone (unless they turned into them through some natural spark or by choice.). Rumple returned to sparkly gold after the curse was undone, so was Blue, Archie, etc. Ruby had a natural return to wolf.

They used it also to atttempt to try to explain away TLK not breaking the Dark One's curse, but that was a failure. Instead they could clarify that not all kisses performed by TLs are TLKs.

So, I would agree on it taking longer to spread and Regina isn't use to less saturated magic which is why her magic flicker, but not a full on flame.