Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20171014181959/@comment-25375217-20171211185910

What's wrong with Drizella spending 10 years trying to cast the Dark Curse? Rumple took two centuries. Drizella is inexperienced with magic and has not only a bunch of heroes on her tail but also now Tremaine and whatever political power she has. Regina took roughly twenty years to master magic well enough for Rumple to even suggest the curse to her.

Rumple looking for the Guardian for 10 years also makes sense. Based on Gothel's definition, he needs someone who will never give in to darkness. Even if he has suspicions on who the Guardian might be, he can't jump to conclusions or he risks creating a new Dark One. But there appears to be no easy way to identify the Guardian, anyway -- Gothel took to locking random girls in a tower -- so I don't see why this is a big deal.

We don't know that Hook's heart is still poisoned. Rogers and Tilly seem to have no problem being close to each other (granted, it's the Land Without Magic, but still). Maybe we'll find out in this episode that they did figure it out over the course of ten years, and we'll see how in 713 or 714. And if not, they've probably already been about for ~10 years based on the apparent casting of young Alice and they haven't found a solution. Cecelia did not find a solution. Maybe this curse is harder to break than most.