Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20170511234425/@comment-27060727-20170516221357

HRHPrincessSierra wrote: Curse #6,549,489,658

The new identies could explain a lot of the character absences I think they could explain that just as well without a S1-like curse, however, with the curse, now they're establishing that the "happy endings" for those characters hit a snag and we can't exactly imagine the ones not there anymore are happily living offscreen doing other things while Henry is recruiting people for another quest. "Where is Emma and Belle?!" will still be a constant question.

I will say personally, watching people with memory loss on TV shows is like the most annoying thing ever, haha. Hopefully it does not last the whole season or I might not make it. xD