Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20171216035405/@comment-24264679-20171217043538

Eskaver wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote:

Still, eight years are almost a full decade. I get it that all the new main actors are over 30 so it would be believable that they are now around the actor's age and were eight years younger in the flashbacks, but Zelena would be teaching fitness way in her 50s? My mother quit teaching dance by that age. Gosh, even Madonna, of all people, started showing her age by then.

My willing suspension of disbelief is getting stretched pretty thin. The real question is what the characters ages were in season 6. Depends on what you think as nothing was explicitly stated.

Let's say Regina is actually 8 years older than Snow and Snow was actually 28 in 2012 (as they didn't ge during the curse which was moved toward the end of 2011). Henry leaves in 2019.

Regina = 28 + 8 + 7 = 43. Zelena would be 45 as she's roughly 2 years older.

Logic would say that 9 years more makes Regina 52 and Zelena 54. Once make-up and hair would toss some grey on their heads. Rationalization must either be:

1. Snow isn't 28, thus Regina is younger we thought.

2. Regina and Zelena found some draggon egg lotion because they haven't appeared to have aged.

3. Math is weird and they never got around to having the make-up and hair department do it for them.

Pretty sure when doing casting calls they tried to get actresses around the characters ages as they do with most shows. Excluding teen shows with 30 year olds. Jared was 10 when he was picked to play Henry who also was suppose to be 10.

So when Regina cast the Curse she would have been roughly around Lana's age in 2010 when filming and casting was done. In 2010 she would have been about 32/33. So Regina would have been roughly in her early 30's when the curse was cast if not younger.

The curse wasn't broken until like late 2011 or Early 2012. Emma was celebrating her 28 birthday in late october(22) 2011 when Henry found her. In Season 2 like mid Season we had Henry's 11th birthday which is August 22 2012. So the Curse was broken somewhere between then.

So by the end of 2014 in which the events of Season 6 take place I assume Regina was in her mid 10's and in 2017 her late 30's.