Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141117031643/@comment-1916997-20141117125654

GothicNarcissus wrote: Wait. INGRID DID TIMETRAVEL. She did! We all saw it! What the hell?!

Also, the Apprentice, on behalf of the Sorcerer, opened a portal to the Land Without Magic just like that. What the hell?!

Unless he is powerful enough to be able to bend the space-time continuum so easily and that's exactly why Rumple was after the hat in the past (screw the Curse, he's just walking the door to Bae), and perhaps also why he is now. I don't think it was time travel, she goes in the portal and when she comes out it's 1982. If anything she was just in limbo until it was her time to come out. Because the events with The Snow Queen we see are all before Emma is born and Emma is born in 1983.