Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161031005929/@comment-7526254-20161031181528

Here's my best explanation for all the confusion. Hook killing his father could have been a few months before the curse. Shortly after, Liam met Nemo and they went under the sea. Their underwater realm was unaffected by the curse. Maybe it didn't contain magic and that is why time didn't freeze. 28 years later, when Emma arrives in Storybrooke but before she breaks the curse, time unfreezes. During this time before Hook reqcquaints with Cora in 2X04, Hook meets Captain Nemo. This would make Liam 60, which is possible although he looked younger. Nemo would have to be at least 60, which is also possible. But maybe he was immortal or something. Maybe the time he spent hunting down his parents' killers happened in a timeless realm, like NL. It is also possible that time moves at a different rate in some realms, though every realm we have seen has moved at the same rate.