Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9232373-20130520194748

How exactly do memories in Storybrooke work? Nobody remembers anything about their past if they try to recall it. Nobody remembers when they got to Storybrooke, when they met each other, how long they worked at their jobs, or how long Regina had been mayor. In Welcome To Storybrooke, they show Regina walking through the town in the morning. Every day is the same. Gepetto is fixing the sign, Mr. Gold walks by next to Gepetto. Red and Granny are arguing about Red working the early shift. Dr. Hopper says "beautiful day". And she walks into Snow every morning. So, do these people just have dull lives of monotonous routine, or is every day like the "first" day for them and they only have their fake memories and no recall as to what happened yesterday in Storybrooke?

At some point, wouldn't someone in the town say "Hey, why aren't we aging?" or "Why is Henry the only one growing up?" or the kids in school going "Jesus, how many times do I have to be in the third grade?" Grace (Hatter's daughter) would have been in the same grade at school for 28 years.

What was it like for Henry growing up being the only one aging? Classmates he knew when he was 5, would still be 5 when he was 10. Shouldn't Henry have like class pictures showing how his classmates in the pictures didn't age at all?  