Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20141117061053/@comment-5106672-20141117163707

Hmcooper4 wrote: As for the Apple, that was discussed on a different thread. My thoughts on that is that it was not time travel at all. The apple fell from Snows hand when she took the bite and rolled away. being both magical and poison, it would not have decomposed during the time, nor would any animals have touched it (since animals instinctively avoid poisonous items), so she grabbed the apple from where it was in the current day which was exactly where it fell. No breaking of the laws of time here.

The other 2 issues both deal with travel to/from neverland. (toss in Killian as well). We may never get an explanation, but My guess is simply that time flows differently in Neverland, relative to the other realms, and that there is nothing constant about the flow of time.

Now, the issue that was NOT mentioned regarding possible timing issues. When Ingrid shows up in the LWM, it is in 1982, the year before the Dark Curse was enacted (by our reckoning). But, based on the interactions between the various characters, there had to be at least 2 years between when Ingrid Froze Anna and Kristoff and the enactment of the Dark Curse. Snow and David had not even met yet at that point, and had just had a baby when the Curse was cast. So did travelling through the portal cost Ingrid a year of time?

Yes, but we also know a good three-four years passed between Lacey and the cast of the Curse because of Roland's age. And the Arendelle storyline is kind of immediately pre-Lacey, so…

And, Neal's issue still remains because he got to Neverland from our world, and then back.

We can notice a thing, though: the difference between Neal's arrival and Rumple's time span, and Ingrid's arrival and the events that took place in Fairy Tale Land after her departure, both have a 1:2 ratio. 150 vs 300 years, one year and a half (assuming she has arrived in early 1982) vs three years. We can presume that the time flow of the Enchanted Forest had "double speed" compared to that in the Land Without Magic until the Dak Curse was cast and synchronised them. We know that the undoing of the Curse had heavy consequences in the space continuum between the realms because it basically sealed them away from each other until it was cast again by Snow White, so it is possible that casting it could have similar large-scale effects and synchronise the time continuum of the lands involved. Rampant theorising here, but I think it kinda makes sense.