Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27364001-20190102231253

After watching season seven, like many of you, I was really confused by the whole timeline/time travel thing. So I was wondering, "What if Gothel's curse didn't put everyone back in time?" I also think it would have been less confusing if time worked the same in the NEF and Storybrooke. I have a few ideas on how these two things could fix the convoluted timeline throughout all of season seven.

1. Gothel's curse could have stopped anyone who the curse took from entering any places of magic (ex. Storybrooke) instead of sending them back in time.

2. We could say the the Henry we see in episode two of season seven is somewhere between his 20's and mid 20's. Assuming he was sixteen when he left, and adding on the time gap of eight years, we can say that it took at least 13 years from Henry leaving to him arriving in Hyperion Hieghts. There is a gap between Emma telling Henry she is pregnant, and Lucy being born, but we don't know how long. It is safe to say it is at least one year.

3. This would mean 13 years or so would have passed in SB, and nine years since Henry saw Emma. Hope would be around eight, while Neal could be in his late teens, and Robin a few years younger. Making the passage of time constant would eliminate the confusion of what year it is and what happened to the 2017 SB.

4. The only negative thing is that Hnery wouldn't be able to call his past self, which I very much enjoyed.

Do you guys think this would be less confusing or is the way OUaT S7 was written better? Did I leave anything out? Tell me your thoughts. 