Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141117031643/@comment-5106672-20141117150801

CoolDudeAl wrote: 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. I've opened a thread about that point because I think it deserves some theories on its own. Anyways, the Arendelle events must have taken place way sooner than one year before the Curse.

As for the author of the book, I think the whole "find him and make him – ask him to write me a happy ending" thing was just Regina overreacting to her heartbreak, which she is kind of prone to do. She didn't take it out on Emma, but on the author. And it was the only thing she could possibly do to rationalise it all, since this time it wasn't really her fault: when she balme others, deep down she really blames herself, which this time she couldn't, so she went desperate.

I think the alternate page shows that, as we thought before, the book simply chronicled what happened (or, in this case, what could have happened), not the book actually influencing the lives of people. The point of the page popping up when Regina needed the most because she had lost all hope (sounds familiar?) was simply to help her see a brighter future, a happy ending, like it did with Henry. It was a reminder that different choices lead to different paths, and that they all have free will and can take control of lives. Regina simply has to fight in her own right for her happy ending, which can be as difficult to get as anyone else's, and the fact that she didn't get it when even Rumple did is just because she really is working hart for it, while Rumple cheated his way up to his like he always does.