Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-5876014-20131031205654

Okay, I'm going on a rant here, so bear with me: They make it clear that not only is this canon with its parent show, but that it is happening during the show's runtime (we see Grumpy and Storybrooke). Whether this is happening before the curse broke or after is yet to be shown (I'm guessing after, give how the White Rabbit and the Knave went back to Wonderland shortly after he arrived). They play it off that Alice is from a world without magic in England back in the original Book's era (Victorian Era). Okay. I can get around that. The problem is that the characters are hinted at (i.e. The Mad Hatter and the Knave of Hearts) have lived amongst familiar denizens of the Enchanted Forest. They show through Jefferson's hat that portals can transcend time along with space, so maybe I could let the White Rabbit's portal jumping into Storybrooke, but then why did the curse send everyone to this world in the 1980s if that's the case? It shouldn't really be the case because if that WAS the case, then the unspecified portal-jump into the enchanted forest should have sent them into an Enchanted Forest 300 years after the curse was cast, and they say specifically that the land froze for 28 years.

And then we have Rumpelstiltskin. They show that he's lived for the last 300 years thanks to his curse. Gepetto was just a little boy when he made that deal with Jiminy, and Baelfire, Smee and Hook kept themselves alive through Neverland's magic, so we can be well assured that that amount of time DID pass in the Enchanted Forest. The Mad Hatter and the Knave of Hearts. Jefferson and William were sent to Storybrooke through the curse (given the Knave's knowledge of modern-day components of living and fashion).

One night I was in the shower, my fingers through my hair, when it all clicked in an instant: What if there was more than one Land Without Magic? There are an infinite number of Lands WITH magic, so why not have Alice come from a seperate Magicless Realm than the one in Storybrooke? Am I making sense here? 