@Dorothy wrote:
I think when he said that this world had no magic, he meant the rest of the world outside SB. SB looks like it operates as a world within a world. It’s a place founded on magic, within a world without magic. The entire situation seems contradictory doesn’t it? It has magic, even though it’s not supposed to.
That’s a pretty good description IMO.
Apart from the overall curse with the time stoppage and the trapping everyone in town stuff, Graham’s heart (wonder if Regina’s got any more stashed away in there) was the only thing to have retained any magic after the transition. Maybe it was the fact that Graham was still alive in SB that kept his heart “alive” as well.
The only other suggestion we’ve had of non-curse-specific magic existing is that Emma appears to have made a magical hat.
@hjbau wrote:
I don’t think the please is magical. I think that Regina could choose to not do what Rumpel says when he says please, she would be breaking the deal though and it would cause a consequence.
I’d always just figured it was something she was magically bound and compelled to do because of the curse. But it could very well be just the fact that she made that deal with him, so she’s keeping it, coz folks don’t get away with breaking deals they make with that guy.