Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-3456168-20140523030907/@comment-5051564-20140605205518

I believe the Dark Curse brought everyone from the Enchanted Forest to our world, except for the people who were under Cora's protection-'dome'. Regina said in an episode that she 'brought who she wanted'. I think that means she brought people from other realms who she wanted, like Jefferson and Frankenstein. (And still everyone from the EF).

The other worlds (Wonderland, Oz) froze during the Dark Curse, until Emma entered storybrooke. Adam once confirmed on twitter that Wonderland was frozen during the curse. Which makes sense: Will and Anastasia go there before the Dark Curse, but they're only a few years older after the Dark Curse, which means those worlds froze. So that would mean Oz froze too. So Zelena didn't age during those 28 years.

Probably Neverland didn't freeze, because there was already no time there, time was already frozen there (but the people weren't). And I think Baelfire left Neverland when the Dark Curse already happened. Neal was +-14 (I guess) when he arrived in Neverland. He didn't grow older there. When he met Emma in Tallahassee he wasn't older than 25 (estimated. In the present-day he was probably not older than 35. He met Emma 10 years before, when he was 10 years younger, and Emma was 18). Let's just say Neal was between 18 and 25 when he met Emma. He met Emma when the Dark Curse had been cast for 18 years already. When Neal left Neverland still at the age of 14, that means he lived not more than 10 years in our world before he met Emma, so he got out of Neverland during the Dark Curse, which means time wasn't frozen there.

But there are a lot of inconsistencies and continuity errors with those curses. The 2nd one didn't change the identities of people, time didn't freeze in Storybrooke and the other parts of the EF, since Hook managed to outrun the curse etc. and Ariel found Eric. That means people did outrun the curse, the curse didn't reach their area. Curious if that was also the case with the first curse. For example: The 2nd curse probably didn't reach Agrabah (which is not a realm, but a place in fairytale land). I'm curious if the first curse did take everyone from Agrabah or not. So there are definitely a lot of confusing and unclear thing about these curses and their effect.