Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25536775-20160805213611/@comment-25926288-20160813110143

Yeah, the writers aren't random people that walked off the street. They do have experience and it's very demeaning to say that the writers stumble upon correct things with coincedences instead of thought. Now, of course they might not remember everything all the time.

They didn't say what was the requirement for breaking the curse. All we know is that it requires TLK. Rumple said he took advantage of what she was. That's it. Regina cast the new "lesser" Dark Curse and it seems to be that Emma still could break the curse, but so could Regina. It stands that perhaps any TLK could break the curse. Nimue doesn't have a Dark Curse. It's just a new townline border which has already seem to disappear if you watched the season 5 finale.

Nevertheless, none of this is related to Alex whatsoever.