Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170725144112/@comment-25375217-20170725185025

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Rumple is immortal, so that does not need explaining. True, but Regina and Hook should still age normally, and they don't appear to have aged 20 years. Regina is an incredibly powerful witch, and has not aged since Snow White was 10. People spent thousands of dollars on anti-aging skincare. Can you imagine how much easier it must be to just use magic? Except they actually used makeup to make a difference between 20-year-old Regina and 40-year-old Regina (mostly a lack thereof to an excess but the difference is there). And going from 20 to 40 isn't a huge difference appearance-wise for several women. Going from 40 to 60 almost always is.

Men often age even more than women do, so Hook going from 30 to 50 should be a fairly large difference -- especially since we've seen him as a 50-year-old in the Wish Realm. Granted, he's living a much healthier lifestyle now, but there should be something notably different about him. He still is pretty clearly a 30-year-old man.

Yes, they could say "magic age wipes" and move on with it, but that's a really cheap excuse.