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Begfhn wrote:

Lacey does not take place 4 years before the curse. It takes place less than 2 years before the curse because it takes place after "Smash the Mirror" (1982). Therefore, Roland's age does not make sense.

Wouldn't Roland actually have been more like 3 years old when the first curse hit in 1983? Because Robin says he's 4 in "Quite a Common Fairy" (S3:E3), and I got the impression that would be approximately a year (maybe a little less) after Emma broke the Dark Curse, which unfroze the people who remained in the EF, so Robin, Roland, and his Merry Men actually experienced normal time during that year. So that means "Lacey" should have taken place in about 1980, which still doesn't match up with "Smash the Mirror." But we could say there was a time travel delay for Ingrid arriving in our world maybe? Like how in the first episode of season 2 Emma and Mary Margaret's arrival in the EF seems a little delayed, unless they were lying in that pile of rubble knocked out all day while Mulan, Aurora, and Philip were dealing with the wraith.