Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-8345449-20140513160042

OEdystopia wrote: Marian's death is a tricky thing. Before Emma and Hook interfered with the time line Robin kept saying it was his fault that she died. He "inadvertingly put her into harm's way during the job".

Yes, I think that's one thing that is somewhat inconsistent with Marian's statement that she got captured because she tried to protect Snow White. Unfortunately, only Hook and Emma remember the orginal timeline and they probably only know that Marian died sometime in the past years ago. Everyone, including Robin, will assume that she died because the Evil Queen executed her in the original timeline. Of course, the viewers will know that something was up if Robin changes his story on how Marian was lost to him e.g. "she suddenly disappeared and I could not find her".

I know it was mentioned that Snow and Robin know each other back in the time when Snow was a bandit.

Nope. Snow and Robin first met in the Forgotten Year when he drove off the flying monkey who attacked her and Regina. He mentioned that their wanted posters were side-by-side but they have never met each other before then.

Or at least for me it's a disturbing thought that pixie dust brought Robin and Regina together despite the fact that she pretty much tried to kill his wife.

Regina saw Robin at the Tavern long before Charming met Snow (which was around the time Marian got captured). At that time, she still hadn't gone too far down the dark path. Leopold was still alive and I think it was also before she met Dr. Whale and Jeffereson, as she was still wearing white and not in her trademark Evil Queen outfits.

Deaths are inevitable. Bringing her to the future won’t save Marian. She’ll die. Probably later but she’ll die anyway.

It's possible. I speculated in my previous post (based on what we know of Nyx in OUaTiW) there might be a higher being who determines the fates of mortals and is not going to be very pleased with someone attempting to cheat death. Perhaps that will be an antagonist that the Storybrooke gang may have to face in the future if they are not willing to just bow down to destiny.