Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9232373-20130520194748/@comment-6905051-20130605061407

Ah the curse and its memories.

according to welcome to storybrook, everyday was same, but I think Regina made some modifications to it  to suit Henry while he was growing up and to alter the monotony of her life. She was bored within 2 months.

Anyways when the curse was there everyone sort of lived a hazed life, with false memories of things that has been happening always. When Emma came to town, time started to move forward and things started movie. Then for those few months, every day became a new day for SB people and in their cursed selved. People learnt important lessons of life. Ruby for example realised her strength as Ruby, Mr Gold realised just how much power he wields even without magic. So when the curse broke, the SB residents were not standing at the same time point when they were cursed, they were  ahead in time. They not only had truckloads of memories, supposedly implanted, but they actually lived those memories and added to them in the few months Emma was there. She came in october and curse broke around march. Thats about 5 months. And in terms of new memories and experience, it was lifetime with so many events and incidents happening together. Graham dieing,crickets chirpin,  Emma being elected sheriff, whole Katherine episode. There is no reason SB people would want to wipe them and return to the point of time they started out. It enriched them and showed them a new side of their lives. I don't think once when curse broke and they realised their FTL self, they would want to let go of the those experiences. Together it completed them.