Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24271690-20131209164833

Classic who came first, the Chicken or the egg?

I Understand the whole backstory about Malcolm being transformed by the shadow into a boy and renaming him self Peter Pan. This occurred because he was too old to be in Neverland and it was a dreamworld not a place to live. The hourglass was created giving Malcolm his powers and Immortality.

Does the shadow obey Pan because Malcolm Created the dreamworld as a boy, thereby creating the shadow or did Neverland and the Shadow always exist?

Also now in Storybrooke the Shadow still obeys Pan, (in Henry's Body). Pan failed in stoping the hourglass from running out, so shouldn't Pan be dead or at least no longer have dominion over the shadow? The timeline is Flawed somewhere. 