Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6302057-20141203042730/@comment-1894786-20141229161022

Eddiefunny wrote: The thing I didn't get was why Dr. Whale is back in Storybrooke shouldn't he have gone back to LWC. But I started thinking he ended up in EF with everyone else and then went straight back to Storybrooke after the 2nd Curse.

The 2nd Dark Curse seen to be less powerful. There was no fake memories or time freeze. And the memory loss was added by the Wicked Witch. I guess the basic form of the Dark Curse is to transport your victims to a Land Without Magic with the Caster as the Ruler of this town. Like Regina said in "Going Home", no one had to be miserable in Storybrooke. Which means that all the Curse is designed to do is bring everyone over, everything else is just added in by the caster. But since Rumple knew the price was steep (killing the thing you love most) he had to make someone use it out of darkness and revenge. And then Regina used it to hurt all of her enemies.

And as for Frankenstein, he was either in the EF when the original Curse hit and was brought back there (his last known location) when the Curse was undone, and then taken once more when Snow's Curse hit, or the Curse can reach into other lands on a limited scale and brings back as many people from the original Curse as possible.