Once Upon A Time uses powerful magic to mean-girl Regina

So this past weekend marked the return of Once Upon A Time. The show had made a lot of noise before the holiday season about how everything would change, now that Cora and Hook were in the real world. But instead of showing terrified fairytale creatures heading for high ground in the wake of Cora's bloody revenge plot, the series leaned on the crutch of a boring old plot device we've seen a million times over.

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