Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20161201052050/@comment-24674051-20161219170858

Agreed. The page 23 from Henry's book shows Regina leaving the Tavern without having met Robin. The Page 23 that Robin found is the Alternate where he and Regina do hook up at the tavern, and was (as Esk pointed out) Isaac's endeavor for alternate reality.

I think part of the thing that's going on is that Page 23, or more specifically the event of Robin and Regina's meeting and falling in love, is a pivotal point in Regina's life, where things could have (and would have) gone radically different for her, and for Robin. While I don't think that the writers are going back in time and changing the events of the past, the episode may very well point to a parallel in terms of a turning point for Queenie that involves her choosing to pursue love or pursue evil. We have seen what happened when Regina pursued Evil. Maybe "page 23" will end with Queenie choosing to pursue love with Robin (back in the Wish Realm), thus changing her fate, while leaving Regina to continue her life in Storybrooke in a healtier emotional state and having moved past mourning for her Robin (who, let's face it, died a hero, regardless of how we felt about the way it was handled).