Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5698213-20130930195403/@comment-4993393-20131015143337

Utter solitude wrote: Or, you may just have to suspend disbelief on this one (gasp!) Truer words were never spoken. I've said on this site before that even the most die-hard fan at some point has to say: "It's just a show." Still, I give enough credit to the writers to believe they'll come up with something good.

I have two theories:

1) Peter Pan implied that Neverland is the nexus of belief and imagination and that those things run throughout all the worlds. That why he needs Henry to be the one whose ability to believe will save the universal belief-stuff (Neverending Story?). Jefferson said something to that effect too. Stories are played out throughout the infinite worlds as a manifestation of that all-special force. In some worlds those stories are just stories are just stories and in others they are real. It could be that the Grimm Brothers' version of Snow White existed in a different world hundreds of years ago. Nikola Telsa is probably alive and doing wonderous things in the LWC whereas he was a famous inventor who died almost one hundred years ago in the LWM. Same thing with Mulan.

On a side note, Peter Pan could be full of crap but I think what he was telling Henry is an interesting direction for the show to go.

2) Like Neal said, forces (Fate, God, whatever) direct events. It could be that Snow White was "fated" to be Snow White and the makers of her story in LWC were fated to make it up.