Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-5106672-20150422125831

Utter solitude wrote:

GothicNarcissus wrote: We're forgetting the mother of all retcons / continuity errors:

1) Jefferson's (very limited) portal to the past in An Apple As Red As Blood.

2) The Dragon using "active powers" in Hong Kong. 1- I'm not sure what you're calling the retcon here. Its lack of power? Storybrooke had no magic at the time, and the item Regina gave up to use the hat was just a ring- small amount of power, small result. The hat clearly needs a ton of magic to operate.

2- The Dragon could have had some magical object we didn't see or hear about. The retcon is, up until that point there was no implication at all that time-travel between lands was not possible. In that very scene, Jefferson himself told Regina, "Then you need to direct me to the time and place where this object exists". I specified the portal was very limited because no, technically no one time-travelled yet at that point, it was just a small opening. Which as of yet is a bit "awkward" to recall.