Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5698213-20130930195403/@comment-6383956-20140106013023

Eddiefunny wrote: There is in fact no time travel in this show. I don't get why it matters if the fairy tale happened before or after the Curse. Also there's two sleeping beauty's. One is Aurora and the other is Aurora's mother. Yes, they said that Aurora's mother also was cursed. But unless Aurora's mother was also named Aurora and was rescued by a prince also named Philip then it is a huge hole in continuity.

Every single other fairy tale we've seen -- literally every single one -- has happened (and finished) by the time the curse was cast. And while the basically throw-away detail that this happened to Aurora's mother too was probably meant to explain this, the problem we have is these characters have the names we use for the characters in the fairy tale.

As much as I know the creators have said "no time travel" (in regards to the White Rabbit and, I'm sure, in regards to this) there's really only two explanations: other worlds are created by what the people in the World Without Magic imagine happens or there actually is time travel.