Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-24898439-20140526185814

She does say that she believes that her family alread thinks that she is dead, though she never mentions why they think that she is dead. She also implies that she has been separated from them for a while. This makes me think of another plot hole. After being rescued and Snow not being dead, when Emma and Hook are telling her to come with them to the future, she mentions she needs to go find her family. But before she was captured by the EQ for supposedly knowing where SW was, she was separated from them for how long, exactly, without looking for them? She had only be captured by the EQ for a couple of days. Here's my thought on what Robin thinks happened (and it just now occurred to me):

They are on a job and get ambushed/surprised, whatever. Perhaps Marian is the lookout for the group. Marian is then injured with something that makes her fall into a deep sleep, knocks her unconscious, etc during the resulting melee. Robin thinks she's dead, and after clutching her body to him, is forced to leave her, thinking all the while that she is dead. She wasn't and wakes up later and is helped by the same villagers helping SW?

My second scenario is that whilst on a job Marian and Robin become separated and he assumes that since she never meets up at the rendevouz point that she is dead. Though this doesn't really explain why he wouldn't look for her. Or perhaps he did, and when he couldn't find her, decides that she has somehow died.

On a not entirely related note, I'm still really hoping that Marian is not really Marian. One could still have all the angst of the triangle, but also get a deliciously good villain out of it if Marian is someone like the Black Fairy or Zelena or some other potential villain (possibly even Maleficent if the Disney movie blows up). Perhaps a Seer could have foreseen the Back to the Future trip and told the villain who capitalized on it?