Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-3147324-20170721033243

there's a mistake in this episode. child emma swan and her friend talk about "like harry potter or something" despite the fact the hardback release of harry potter was in september of 1998. Then given that it took a FULL YEAR to come to paperback in the united states, it's also possible to conclude the american run was a small one.

in other words there's no way at all emma, an orphan, would've had any idea who or what harry potter was in 1998.

Let alone the fact that specifically the scene was set in the SUMMER of 1998 before there were even copies of the book in the united states at all. Sloppy research, all they had to do was google harry potter and read for 17 seconds. Instead they only googled it for 5 seconds, long enough to find out it was published in 1997 in england. 