Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25733960-20171216040204/@comment-25926288-20171217002222

8Rob wrote: WishRealm was not important, but they made it important in season 7

You can't say it's irrelevant there is another Dark One around, just when they are trying to put the Darkness to rest It's somewhere in between. It's not more important than in season 6, but "retconned".

I guess I have to put it a third way. It's a good question, but it's not relevant to waking up Lucy, finding  the Guardian, breaking the curse, the timeline, etc. So, I agree that it's a big walking anomaly (like a number of other things), but that's not relevant to the current story being told. Rumple's story is about him dying, not what WR Rumple is doing. Only Regina (the one being present) knows about that and perhaps Wish Hook.