@Neverlander wrote:
Who said all the portals go to “our world”?
No one- not even I did thank you 🙄 When you listen to the conversation Cora has, she say’s “they are all” not “it is” so there was more than one portal going to our world, as that’s where she’s trying to get to.
@Phee wrote:
I don’t think Snow knew for sure that it would work, she didn’t even know if it still existed. It’s just that they’re desperate, and that’s the one and only portal she ever knew of to get from FTL to our world, so it was their only option to try. But she didn’t actually have any idea how to get it to work, or if it was even possible.
That’s exactly my point tho- they were desperate for months/quite some time looking for a way to save FTL/EF & no one in all that time mentioned recharging any magical devices (not in the pilot nor during all of S1).
@steliokontos1 wrote:
And besides that between just finishing the wardrobe and getting Emma through right before the curse hit there’s wasn’t time to even consider the possibility of recharging it again.
That’s not quite true though- They found the tree which was the ‘last of its kind’, BUT had months/time to wait while it was being carved into a wardrobe, knowing only one could go through. They had every waking minute of that time to consider & think about it, to the point that Snow was desperate to avoid having to go through & said out right, she didn’t want to/wasn’t going to go through without Charming right before going into labor!)- Still no mention of recharging magic here either! They also had the possibly oldest, ‘most powerful’ magical being in EF at their disposal as well & in all that time between finding the tree & the curse hitting, they what, conveniently forgot to think about re-charging portals or any powerful magic that entire time?
That is what I’m disappointed about. To me it is just poor writing- it was a major plot/theme for S1, but is degraded in S2, to, oh we could have recharged it – our bad!
I’m a rational person- I think it could have worked (it’d be very convenient still, but I would have brought it) if they’d had a single sentence in there from Snow to Emma or even Charming to Henry, Jefferson or Blue etc, saying ‘we thought about/tried to make it happen before having to send you/her through, but failed’ or something along those lines in any of the previous eps to explain it had ‘come up’ but wasn’t possible at that stage-( enter Emma as a catalyst & there you have a working loop hole to that rule). That would have also allowed some of Gep’s selfishness to be explained away too- but it didn’t go down like that 🙁
@Phee wrote:
The way they worded Snow’s line, “if anyone has access to enough magic”, is a big hint at Emma’s ability to tap into any residual magic in the atmosphere.
Which I would buy IF Snow knew about Emma’s ability- remember Snow didn’t SEE Emma touch the hat- she was focused on the wrath at that point & only saw Emma pulled into the hat, then they got captured, tied to horses, Snow knocked out & dumped in a pit with Cora etc, so because we haven’t seen that conversation (of how Emma touched the hat & it worked), we cant assume they have had it or that Snow knows about it yet- so Regina is the only other one so far to know something is different about Emma magicaly & this being the case, it doesn’t fit that context- at least not for me.
I do agree it’s a hint to Emma’s magic, but only for us.
I’m not saying I hate the show now- I still love it (although this weeks E05 was a bit of a let down story wise 😉 ), I just think they dropped the ball here is all, they could have worked it in much better, so it fit the story line they themselves have presented thus far, than they did is all.