Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27810039-20160217103443/@comment-27810039-20160217123352

Blaziken rjcf wrote: 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. Hmm. Thanks for this, but this is also a hypothetical possibility I'd come across that doesn't square with the pre-existing facts, and therefore places this perceptibly false "explanation" in the apt category of a retcon because following her utilization of magic in the conventional sense during the Original Series, Gwen had never once exhibited any characteristic Anodite traits and qualities to coincide with the subsequent explanation, there's also the fact that as far as I've seen if it's true that she's both a magician and Anodite then why has she of yet actually switch between the two 'avocations', as they are? Is this or is this not a case of mutual exlcusivity?

There's little to no coherence and concrete substantiation of how Gwen transitions from being an oral spell-caster and creating a variety of different effects to, over the course of 5 years, abruptly discontinuing the magic and weilding otherworldy abilities that have negated a former ability. It doesn't make much sense--and since she doesn't utilize conventional magic anymore as far as I have seen, what does the Anodite explanation actually explain?