Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27810039-20160217103443/@comment-34326521-20160217114634

I'm really tired of this complaint, so here's the explanation:

Magic was not retconned. The origin of Gwendolyn Tennyson's - AKA: Ben's cousin, AKA: Max's granddaughter - powers is what was explained (as in, not retconned) as being part of her Anodite ancestry. That's why she was more powerful than Charmcaster in the original series. That's why she was able to use Hex's staff roughly 2 seconds after picking it up. Either that, or she was a master magician from the moment she was born, without having practiced or even knowing about magic, which is absurd.

Gwen being part Anodite was not a retcon. It was an explanation to a massive plothole in the original series.