Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-31937823-20180405010135/@comment-33386384-20180504210758

CoolDudeAl wrote: JennaMae wrote: Leroiblanc wrote: Can the plot even get away without explaining W!Henry's age, Neal vs Robin's age? Surely someone is gonna notice there is something very off... When you have a lot of fans who will come up with ways to explain away inconsistencies for you and will come up excuses/assumption for things that go against what's been established in canon, these writers probably do think they can get away without explaining those things and to some extent, the audience has given up and is letting them.

So many comments about timelines nowadays are "Who cares?" and "Idk, weird time stuff must have occurred again" and "Nothing makes sense anyway, so just go with it!" and when that's what the audience has accepted, it's harder to believe that the writers are going to go back to touch on everything. There seem to be opportunities in these last episodes to stick in lines of dialogue to fix /something/ - but who knows if they took them.

But like, are the writers actually aware of these timeline issues we've been mulling over? Or do they truly think that they've had it all sorted out like Adam said in his tweets about their meticulous timeline-keeping? You would think they would know something is weird just on a very basic level, if Season 6 was 2014 and Season 7 is 2017/2018, and yet Neal went from like 1 to 10, and he was assumably in SB the whole time, so they can't use the "other worlds" excuse, which they technically can use for Henry, Lucy, Robin, Gideon, etc. They can't use it in Robin's case, unless she and Zelena got to somewhere else before moving to the NEF. And, yet, this whole "times moves differently in different worlds" thing was just addresed in season 7 (only exception is The Dark Realm in season 6).