Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4782029-20151002213806/@comment-1916997-20151013163121

Hmcooper4 wrote: I don't know. The way I read the announcement is that Hook and the EQ would indeed get a joint backstory. Which I agree sounds like a break in continuity, since we know most of the story from their first encounter in "The Queen of Hearts" to the present day. unless something is happening that is causing both Hook and Regina to be more of their Darker selves in Camelot (and we already saw a glimmer of that with Regina invoking the EQ persona during her conversation with Zelena). It could be joint through another character. Like (just being really random, I don't think this is the actual character that would connect them) Merida talks to Hook and then later talks to Regina, so it is one complete flashback story, and Hook and Regina are both in it, but they don't interact directly. Then this flashback can take place before Hook and Regina meet, and not retcon anything.