Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20170502222723/@comment-5679696-20170502225112

Given that:
 * So things change as you fill in details. What was unique becomes common, what was incredibly powerful becomes insignificant, and what was implied to have a wealth of unexplored detail... doesn't. After the story is fleshed out, exposition given way back in the beginning is off, somehow. Maybe the author thought that was how the world worked, but it didn't really turn out that way.

I think this happens a LOT on the show, and I dislike it too. The most notable example are Magic Beans. First the Blue Fairy makes a fuss about how her bean is the last known to her kind. Then we realize random spinsters had one too, Black Beard has a couple to trade, more can be grown, there's a petrified one, etc.

There's also the Dark Curse's sacrifice. It was such a big thing, The Thing You Love Most. The whole sacrifice makes no sense whatsoever. Rumple was a much more experienced Dark One than Hook, so he would surely have been able to free Merlin from the tree (which was really easy if you had the Dark One's Dagger and a tear of lost love, which he had for loosing Bae and Milah), and use his heart to cast the curse resorting to Nimue's feelings inside him. OR if Regina would've split her heart in half to resurrect her father. And her horse.