Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151026110450/@comment-24674051-20151029054504

1. It's consistency. I totally agree with that.

2. As to wolves being around Storybrooke, they made a comment back in season 1 (I think it might have even been in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter") that wolves were rather scarce around storybrooke.

3. a good bit of storytelling is that the wolf was a projection of Merlin. (Obviously, he had some limited capability to project himself, as we saw with the Usher with Young Emma). We saw with the Lily Storyline that Merlin knew something of Emma's fate, and I would not put it past a powerful wizard to try to manipulate things a bit. Particularly if it served his selfish purposes. Looking at it this way actually makes the wolf even more of an act of continuity.

4. Or all of the above is a load of hogwash, and the wolves were just random occurances. :)