Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5821891-20131031221624/@comment-5325802-20140322181114

Hm, actually, I wouldn't buy time travel. Regina reaching back to grab the Apple was one thing, but legitamte Time Travel seems like to much of an impossibility for the OUaT universe when it has the strict rule Magic cannot change the past.

It seems even more impossible when you take into account this would also require several different instances of actually time travel throughout the series if that were the case. First little girl Alice would time travel forward and backward her original journeies to and from Wonderland in order to have met the Knave; the Knave time travel from present day back to Alice's time to get her for the story to start, and Alice going forward to get to Storybrook again to get the Kane's Heart.

If time really is the answer to this, the only explanation I would accept is that Wonderland itself exists outside normal timeflow, but even that feels like an inconsistency. UGH! Just when I thought I had a handle on things, it gets brought straight back down into utter confusion!