Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.49.79.202-20130531160842/@comment-8954026-20130531164303

I agree with the premise as you are correct in that they didn't arrive back at the time they left, time had passed in EF/LWM but I think it runs slower than it does elsewhere.

1) Wendy was only gone a few hours (overnight) in LWM but to quote her, 'it felt like so much longer', and she even states 'time must work differently in Neverland' - that, to me, is definitive!

2) As you said, 200 years passed between Rumple losing Bae and the curse, but when Neal returns to LWM, only about 100 years has passed, if NL followed the same time rate as LWM there would be a 200 year time difference.  Maybe it's half speed, but for some reason, people don't age!