Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161205015930/@comment-26116863-20161205053335

I guess the answer is that its not just a made up world, but an actual reversal redo of the events in their world. Neil is there so that Rumple wasn't as motivated to get the dark curse going, so Emma was never sent to our world. As a consequence of that, Robin never ended up in our world, so he didn't die. It's what would have had to have happened for Emma to never had become the savior, and what would have happened as a consequence of that. It had some logic that it had to follow.