Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4637931-20180907220905

A lot of people have been showing a lot of negativity on the ending whether it be the whole "combining realms is stupid" or "I don't understand it" or "not enough Emma" or "did they all stay in the past if so, what about Zelena and Chad?" and other stuff. Because I like to try to look on the positive side to things, after some careful thought, I think I understand the ending or this is just how I like to envision it. Ok so I think the ending with the coronation is everyone in the present time. I think when Regina cast her good curse, she cast it after she, both Henrys, WR Hook and older Henry went back to their home in Hyperion Heights. I also think they found a way to go back to the present time because for one thing, Emma had her baby at the coronation and during the time when Henry was graduating, Emma wasn't even pregnant with Hope yet. Also, Zelena was seen with magic when she poofed herself to the coronation room. She didn't have her magic back yet during Henry's graduation time. She got it back much later. Also as to why Chad wasn't at the coronation, maybe Zelena didn't feel ready yet to introduce him to the magic world. Either that or they just weren't able to bring the actor back and we should just assume he's somewhere in the crowd. As for the question as to why Prince Neal is younger then Zelena's daughter Robyn during the coronation even though he was born before her, I think maybe the fact Robyn was born due to the sped up pregnancy spell, I'm thinking maybe there was a side effect that caused Robyn to grow quicker even after being born. That's what I'm going with anyway. Maybe Neal was an adult but has dwarfism. I also hear that it's a thing where there's this condition that causes people to always look really young for their age no matter how old they get. Again, that's just a few of the things I'm going with. Maybe when spirit Cora possessed Snow, it affected his growth. As for the combining realms part, I think the people who don't understand it aren't familar with shows and movies that have done similar things. For instance, there's the disney channel movie, The Descendants where all the disney characters' worlds were combined to create Auradon and the rulers of Auradon were the beast and Belle later their son, Ben. There's also this tv series called "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic" where the setting is a place called Equestria that has different lands ruled by different people (well ponies) and that place is ruled by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. So basically how I see it, Regina is the King Beast and Queen Belle and Princess Celestia and Luna of OUAT's combined realms. People have also been complaining about how it should've been Emma or the Charmings. Here's the thing, Emma has never shown any interest in being queen of anything. She seems perfectly happy just being sheriff. Also Snow and Charming still have their own kingdom to rule over. Plus they have their other jobs as sheriff and teacher so they already have two jobs. Yes, I'm assuming Snow and Charming will still maintain their Storybrooke careers as well as ruling their kingdom. I've seen it be done before. I don't see why Snow can't be both queen and teacher and why David can't be both king and sheriff. Anyways, I hope all this was helpful. You can agree or disagree with my theories but for me personally, I like these theories and I'm sticking to them. It feels much better then only seeing the negative side to these things and losing my mind over the confusing parts. 