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Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Begfhn wrote: FrancisPaul wrote: Jane Esperson confirmed that Ingrid waited many years. The final scene in Smash the Mirror, with the Apprentice operning the door, happens quite some time after the rest of the episode. So, Lacey may very well be 2-4 years before the curse This still does not make sense. If Belle moves into Rumpel's castle four years before the curse, that means she lives with him for alost 3 years. This also means Snow spends at least 3 years running from Regina. Based on the story I assumed she was only running for a few months, unless there's a huge time gap between "Child of the Moon" and "Snow Falls". Well, I've always been under the impression that Regina threw Snow out of the Palace while Snow was still 16-18. If Snow really is Emma's age like we've heard throughout the show (29 as of 4B) then that would mean that Regina was chasing Snow for 8 years as a bandit and in the span of four years, she met Charming, led a resistance and dethroned Regina, after which Regina cast the Curse. I agree with this ^^^. I think the whole 4a thing messed with the timeline because it simply makes little sense.

Belle was with Rumple for at most a year and then imprisoned by Regina for about three to four years based on tally marks.

Snow was roughly 18-20 at the time of Leopold's death, given that she's unbethrothed and picking flowers, but she seems to have looked that way since Regina's early magic days, so I'd say at most 22. But then Mal told Regina weren't you her age when Snow ruined it all. This means Snow is around her early 20s a year before the curse. I doubt that Snow and Charming are her exact age because it wouldn't make sense.

Regina would need time to gain a title of Evil Queen and we saw that Regina barely knew magic even when Snow was 16-18.

Either Snow was older than we thought.....but then remembering Ingrid and Helga and Gerda....apparently you can still be single even though you are in your 30s. (Their father was 70, so I doubt they were any younger.) Even if it doesn't all add up, I think Adam and Eddie will have to retcon it to be this way, because otherwise the timeline really does make no sense. If the EF was Storybrooke, definitely. (I mean, all four seasons in present time take place over the course of about 19-20 months and it's been confirmed and does add up pretty well. That's pretty fast.)

But since the EF is still stuck in like the 1200's, there is no way Snow and Charming got an army ready to fight Regina in around less than a year. Especially if Snow literally had to stand on soap boxes and lecture everyone into helping her. The technology to communicate or travel quickly enough just isn't there.