Completing Excalibur and Snuffing out the Light

[cutie pie]

So, I thoroughly enjoyed the education to the rules of magic and that Magic always comes with a price in Sunday nights episode “The Price.” And apparently the Dark One doesn’t make the rules, so who did?

The last segment of the episode where Rumple is explaining how those pesky friends and family and loved ones keep the light shining and hope awaiting some type of reward, and Emma’s desire and desperation to get rid of it once and for all was an outstanding commentary on just where the level of thought, writing, and storytelling has gone this year.

So forum friends, what is the price Emma would have to pay to get the sword from the stone, the one Merlin obviously told her “don’t” about? Any thoughts?

[RumplesGirl]

And apparently the Dark One doesn’t make the rules, so who did?

Really these are just cosmic rules. No one made them unless OUAT is going to get into the whole “God” thing, which they aren’t except in their minor God insert character of Merlin. But really the idea that everything has a price or the idea that darkness is striving to snuff out light is really just the oldest story there is.

 

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[fumerunner]

I’m interested in hearing theories as well now that Arthur claims that the darkness can be snuffed out with a whole Excalibur. Assuming the price is different for everyone, will the “winning” side belong to whomever is able to reunite the two pieces? Since Emma is the Dark One, her price is the loss of her family and friends which is being construed as “the light.” However, I think Arthur’s price would be the loss of Camelot and he may be the “darkness” that is snuffed out since his intentions aren’t true. Then without him, an enchanted Guinevere rules with the impression that she is the light but is in fact darkness as well. An out there thought, but perhaps the end game with Excalibur is to snuff out the light. So lost.

[TheWatcher]

What exactly does snuffing out the light even mean? We know the darkness before being tethered to the dagger wanted to consume the light and all the realms and was stopped by Merlin. WHY on earth would ANYONE, good or evil, want that? Won’t everyone essentially die? Or is it more of a metaphysical thing, perhaps killing all those who serve the forces of goodness?

Reuniting the dagger and the sword, I presume, gives one full control over both the darkness and light. I think. Having a king who could bend the forces of evil to his will with the power of good could be a really strong king. A king who can bend the forces of good to his will using the power of evil would also be a really bad king.

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