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Ok, so… light magic incurs a price?
In which case there are a heck of a lot of people who owe some prices. Is it just using light magic or is it using light magic for your own endgame?
Or did she go scaly because he enjoyed using the dark magic?
This is how I read the scaly portion of the episode. It was “tasty” and it was the first step to giving into the Darkness.
But then why on earth did the Fury need to come collect
I don’t want to yell PLOT but…
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"There is a dark satisfaction I am taking in their failure. I wont even hide that. I know I’m not the only one.
Oh I cheered and tweeted a lot of “hhahahahahahaha” last night. It was highly satisfactory for me. The problem is that I also don’t think it will stick. I think the writers will wave this failure away somehow and bring it back.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"No they aren’t going to change their direction. I think everyone knows this. But it is hard sometimes to not wonder if the writers don’t notice what they’re doing. I mean this is the THIRD time that a CS kiss hasn’t lead to anything happy or good or positive. Once is a coincidence. Twice is a pattern. Three times in a red flag of PAY ATTENTION.
And just a side note but JJ had nothing to do with LOST past about 2.5. He came back to direct an episode of S3, but he removed himself from the show very early on. And Damon and Carlton stand by their ending.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The problem is that Regina was the oathbreaker, not Robin. And if we are going to be specific, the actual oathbreaker is Emma for failing to mention that there is a price to her magic.
Yeah….I think (gosh, THINK) that Regina’s price is losing love again. She does say to Emma, I lost love once I won’t do it again. So her price for saving Robin is that she loses him again.
Looked like light magic to me though it could just be healing magic. I vaguely recall Rumple healing someone at one point though can’t recall if there was a price.
It was light magic. I posted a screen shot…somewhere. *hunts*
However, when Rumple healed Bae in S1 and Belle in S2, it was purple magic.
ETA: there was no price. I guess? I don’t know. They made this whole thing up this season.
I mean…PLOT
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"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.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Just finished watching episode 3. Much better than episodes 1 and 2 and I’m starting to be drawn in a bit more. I don’t really have any theories or ideas, but I like more of what I’m seeing. Give me another week or so, and maybe I’ll have an idea or two.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Unless I’ve totally forgotten my Greek mythology, aren’t Furies/Erinyes agents of justice, of sorts?
Yes. But I think the writers might be pulling from the Illiad, broadly at least, when it states that the Erinyes are “those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath.” You swear that you’ll pay the price (like Regina unintentionally does by asking Emma to save Robin) but it’s a false one because you never intended to pay the price.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Why the Fury plot? What was the point of that?
Yes, I agree that they could easily set up Hades/Underworld foreshadowing without pulling out a Fury. But these writers never quite know when to ease up off that throttle. If (if if if) The Underworld is coming next and Emma goes down to it, then I suspect they’re going to double up on their Greek myths in which Hook becomes an Orpheus stand in and Snow becomes Demeter.
I mean, the goal of “snuffing out all light” or whatever the sword would do, seems like a rather abstract, academic one to me.
And the snuffing out the light seems to happen no matter how much love you’re being given from your friends and family. Case in point, Rumple’s darkening heart that he was unable to stop even though he married the love of his life. It was likened to a medical condition that has no cure.
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