Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20150520160921/@comment-1894786-20151020234949

Begfhn wrote: The last episode might have given us some important information that can help us determine what year (and possibly month) certain past events occured. In 5X04 the past events where Guenevere and Lancelot find the DO's dagger took place 5 years ago. This is not including the time of the curse which lasted 28 years AND 4 MONTHS (which most people don't take into account). Based on the placemet of Lacey, I thought it should be closer to six years, but there are ways to work around it.

In Lacey, Roland was not yet born. The flashbck in 5X04 takes place right before Heroes and Villians. This flashback SUPPOSEDLY takes place right after Lacey.

Let's assume that 5X04 takes place cocurrently to Roland's birth: In 3A Roland is said to be 4. Robin could be rounding up. 4 years earlier in EF time would be around December 1979. It is currently around February 2014, almost exactly 2 years since the curse was broken. Five years ago would be around October 1980. These two events are 10 months apart. If we split the difference we get May 1980. This means the events of 5X04 took place 5 years and 5 months ago and Roland was 3 years and 7 months in 3X03 (They could have rounded up by 5 months. It is the same amount they round up Henry's age in Season 2).

Again, this is only under the assumption that 5X04 takesplace cocurrently to Roland's birth. There are many factors I didn't include. Marian appears to be days away from giving birth in Lacey. We don't know that Heroes and Villans takes place right after. It says so on the EF timeline page, but couldn't that have taken place any time when Belle was living with Rumple? Didn't she live with him for almost a year? Is my estimate of the EF timeline correct?

If anyone has an answer to any of these questions, please share. It's closer to August 2013, not February 2014. Alexandra Hermann is 18 months old as of The Snow Queen, which places the current timeline in May 2013 since she was born in November 2011. It's been at least 12 weeks since then (the six week jump between Heroes and Villains and Darkness On The Edge Of Town, and the subsequent six week jump between Operation Mongoose Part 2 and The Dark Swan), which equals three months. That would be August 2013. September 2013 at the latest.