Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151017160320/@comment-26967699-20151205131520

Eskaver wrote: I've got the perfect reason that explains away all possible retcons or at least this episode. (Note: I saw it on another site, while lurking.)

This happened because it's an alternate timeline. Emma and Hook changed the past and it ripples to weird inncsistencies like this. Actually that would make perfect sense. You probably know the Butterfly Effect. Once you change even something tiny in the past, it could destroy the whole world. But when some retcon appear in an episode, are we always going to say "The past is changed" lol