Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6036560-20140421102126/@comment-5106672-20140421105202

Kind of like Final Fantasy VIII, in which the main villain time-travels to the past to avoid death but in doing so causes the events that eventually lead to her own downfall? That would be cool! And the best way to pull out the time travel thing without it going out of hand and becoming too paradoxical: anything that happened was already influenced by Zelena's attempted, all along.

It would also be consistent with the way Rumple sees the future: certain things are written and there's no escaping them, which means some things in the future cannot really change, no matter what you do.