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That is exactly what I'm saying!!! After trapping the Darkness into a person, he should have trapped the person in a place forever! He just let it run off to wreak havoc.

The whole Cora issue, killing her makes sense but there really was no reason to fear her because as you said they could both easily kill her.

Now most will scream plot holes, but I'll wait until they show up (because we all know they will), but I think this is also to blame on the lack of magic building. Here I'lk give you this:

Dark Magic

Light Magic

Fairy Dust/Pixie Dust magic

Genie Magic

What can they not do? The answer will be the same. SO, how do we tell a difference besides the origin. Regina can be a mediocre sorceress but we don't know what she can't do. Same with Merlin, we don't know what he's not capable of. And with all that he seems to be capable of, it seems to lack logic of how the plot actually happens.