Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20170119000258/@comment-24674051-20170119161757

While Tiger Lily being a savior is an interesting concept, who is her big villain?

I would bet that SNowing breaking the curse is part of the episode, but it may just be the B plot of the episode.

Ok, try this on for the A Plot. Neverland was supported by magic for many years, due to both the Shadow and Pan. in "Going Home", both were defeated. The question then becomes what became of Neverland? Pan is dead, the shadow destroyed, the lost boys are in Storybrooke. My thought is that, without all of the magic, anything that was left of Neverland just "went to sleep". Pan did say that magic was dying there, so that may not be a stretch (assuming that you can trust what Pan was saying.)

Now, in "Mother's Little Helper", let's say that something happens that removes the Black Fairy from the Dark Realm, and she needs to find a new home. Neverland might make a good option, since it is out of the way and presumably dead. And time does work a little wonky there as well, which could be to her liking. So she goes and sets about to make NL her new base of operation. The return of magic to the island, though, wakes the one remaining person on the Island. Tiger Lily wakes up, and she is the Savior of Neverland, with the BF as her enemy.

As for getting the main characters tied into this, in researching the Snowing curse, they do find a cure that requires water from Neverland (the same water that counters Dreamshade). Hook, due to his familiarity with NL, agrees (reluctantly) to lead a party back to NL to obtain the water, taking Emma and Regina. They encounter Tiger Lily and find out about the BF. The manage to get the water, and barely escape the island, with Tiger LIly in tow.

There are obviously a lot of plot holes in the above, and there are a few assumptions about setup that will likely not happen. But it is a start of my headcanon until we get more information.