Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151019010334/@comment-1894786-20151019013738

TheSamTrickster wrote: The timeline in this episode is weird. 5 years prior, it showed how rumple got a hold of the gauntlet, however, we know that emma and lilly was conceived around the same time (30 years ago), which means, it couldn't be 5 years ago that the QOD kidnapped belle and stole the gauntlet. As we seen in the heroes and villain episode, right after rumple returned from camelot after obtaining the gauntlet, belled was kidnapped, which is way before maleficent was pregnant with lily and snow was pregnant with emma.

And arthur said he was waiting for them to come for a decade, which is impossible if he only pulled the sword five years ago from the present day. 3 years before the Dark Curse, 28 years of freezing in place, 2 more years since the Curse was cast. Five years. So it does match up with what we've seen.

But yeah, it is kind of weird he'd say that he's been waiting a decade for the heroes if he created Camelot 5 years prior. Though maybe he pulled the sword from the stone 8 years before the Curse, and then the events of Camelot's creation were 5 years after that. 'Cause he only said he was waiting for them to reunite Camelot with Merlin.