Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-1826156-20170525024336

Hera Pan wrote: Begfhn wrote: I created this thread for people to ask and answer questions about the show's very confusing timeline. Mos recently I've noticed some confusion about the Oz timeline. Here is my understanding. It's Not Easy Being Green and Kansas took place when Regina was first learning magic, roughly 20 years before the curse. It is unclear exactly when Heart of Gold takes place. Since Robin just got married and Marian is not yet pregnant, it must be at least 5 years before the curse. Our Decay might take place before or after the curse. I'm going to say before because at the beginning of the episode it said many years ago and the curse has only been broken for about 2 years. Oz and Fairytale Kansas were definitely frozen during the curse. Dorothy should be around the same age as Snow, so if she wasn't affeced by the curse she would be in her 60s. Our Decay probably took place right before the curse because Dorothy is still around the same age in Ruby Slippers. All I can say about Where Bluebirds Fly is that it takes place after Our Decay because Zelena mentions Dorothy and that she thinks she will return. It has been pointed out that a tin man was seen in Heart of Gold, but I think it has to be a different tin man, since that episode should take place years earlier. "Heart Of Gold" should be more years before the curse, because we see Will in Oz and Anastasia was the Red Queen in "Out Of The Past", when Grace (Jefferson's daughter) was 2 years old. HoG may be 10 years before the curse or 9...

If you don't care about the tin man (seriously, how many tin mans could be in Oz?), "Our Decay" and "Where Bluebirds Fly" could be when you want. I actually take Heart of Gold's tin man as Stanum, so I put those episodes before "Heart Of Gold". Assuming Dorothy was ¿14/ 15? in "Kansas", she could be in her early twenties. In the Canon Oz books there are actually two men made of Tin...and one who is partially made of tin and the leftover parts of the two tin men from when they were human. The first is the most well known, Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, the second is the Tin Soldier (they both fell in love with the same woman and were cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East so that they chopped their own bodies apart. Those parts were then frankensteined into a third man along with some tin.