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Eskaver wrote:

It has been a plot hole ever since, especially with them going to see Rumple and him telling them about Emma when Maelficent apparently did so this season. I think they wrote their way around it in "Best Laid Plans", by having Charming tell Emma "maybe they were just words", tying back to how he says "they're just words" back in the pilot. It's still very contrived. They shouldn't be intentionally looking to retcon things and coming up with contrived reasons to explain them. That just makes the audience question things, and results in them finding plot holes.