My theory on the Power Alignment of Season 2

I emailed the following to the feedback email address but I wanted to post it for everyone to checkout, I would love to hear what people think of my theory.

So I haven’t heard every podcast yet nor ready every post so forgive me if this theory has already been explored in the past. Here are my thoughts on how magic is going to work in Storybrooke.

My initial reaction to Mr. Gold releasing magic into the town was similar to everyone else. Your going to have everyone walking around with magic in such a proximity that will make Storybrooke more or less unlivable. So then I first starting thinking was how many of these characters actually have magic? As I look through all the characters that were introduced in Season One I see many characters affected by magic in some, way, shape or form. I have also seen many objects both constructed and found in nature that have magical properties. However when you get right down to it who actually has the ability to use magic, an assortment of witches, Rumple(The Dark One), and of course the Fairies? Now ofcourse we have some one-offs: Jefferson who’s magic is purely based on a magical object, his hat, and Ruby with her ware wolf affliction. Sydney is a possibility if the purple cloud restored it because his Genie powers were technically “lost”.

So looking at it from a big picture point of view you have three pillars of magic in the town. What I think may happen is a type of balance of power is established between Gold, the Mayor and the Nuns. In fairy tale land peoples thought process was much different than the normal world. One of your first instincts in solving your problems in FTL was to seek out some sort of magical assistance to resolve it. The Queen and Rumple chose to exploit the “normal” non-magical residents of FTL when they requested help. The Fairies gave magical assistance (when resources permitted), unconditionally.

Flash-forward to Storybrook pre-purple you see a similar division of power occur in town without magic. Regina gained influence and manipulated the town with her political power, Gold gained influence and manipulated the population through his economic and the real-estate power. The Nuns still gave assistance if they could. I see two things happening in the future. Once the three “pillars of power” so to speak, once gaining their abilities in this new world where magic is unpredictable a system of checks and balances develops amongst the three to prevent any one to being the God of magic in Storybrooke. Regina and Gold are less likely to join forces because of their hatred and distrust and the Nuns aren’t going to team up with either one. Another big concept that I think everyone is overlooking is the state of mind of everyone in town who has been living a more or less civilized lifestyle in Storybrooke for the last 28 frozen years and will most likely be using magic is a more last option to resolving their problems knowing of course that “magic has a price”.

Still having the wild cards of Ruby, Hatter, Sydney and of course enchanted objects throughout town will still make for good magical issues interlaced within normal everyday human issues. Everyone knows that the Mayor (if she is still the Mayor for long) and Gold have it in their nature to break the rules for their personal gain and maybe that’s where Emma comes in with her still yet undiscovered powers. We can’t forget the resource problem of the Fairies (Fairy Dust) which means more involvement from the Dwarfs.

As far as flashbacks go I think it would be interesting to flash back to the 28 years of frozen time to see some of the relationships develop and some of the enemy’s made while everyone was living without magic.