Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20140422161814/@comment-5106672-20140424140012

OEdystopia wrote: A thought crossed my mind yesterday. Despite everything he did to prevent it, Rumple couldn't change the fact that Baelfire grew up fatherless, In order to see Bae growing up he deserted, becoming the Dark One. Becoming the Dark One resulted in Bae loosing his father.

Transferring her abilities to Rumple the Seer told him:

The future is a puzzle. With many pieces to be sorted. In time you'll seperate what can be from what will be.

Maybe turning back the time wouldn't help Zelena because certain events (deaths and births, probably) happen anyway. Certain events are inevitable. I just think anything Zelena did to alter the past has already happened and affected the present-day timeline. Which is, her attempt to radically change it has failed and it only affected the timeline in ways that are already part of history. So, present-Zelena has already travelled to the past and whatever she did has already had consequences, which in turn brought to the present she's coming from.

I think, since time travel has not been achieved and therefore no one knows how it works, she believes she can change the past, but all she does ultimately brings to her misery she's trying to change. (I don't know if anything I've written makes any sense out of my head.