Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24769579-20150301075208/@comment-1894786-20150309033357

Yalphi wrote: It would appear that Zelena's curse brought them back to the point in time in which they left Storybrooke. For instance, in the original creation of Storybrooke there is no magic, yet when they left in 3 x 11 there is. So when they came back in 3 x 12 magic was was already there and everyone who was there before came back to there lives as they were when they left in 3 x 11.

Makes me wonder if Mr. Smee is a rat again. What are you talking about? When Regina broke the Curse, everyone was taken back to the Enchanted Forest. This reversed Rumple's rat curse on Smee, but Pinnocchio is still shown as a child in Storybrooke, meaning he did not revert back to August in the Enchanted Forest. Also, dead is dead. Maleficent was dead in Storybrooke, she was dead in the Forest. Only the Curse sustained her.

When Snow cast the Curse, it wasn't to take people's magic, memories or happy endings away, it was just for transportation. So magic went with them, and everyone who was still alive (because I'm sure there was at least one person killed or died of natural causes during the missing year) went back to Storybrooke into the same position they were before. Maleficent was still ashes under the library, Sidney was still a spook in the asylum, etc.

And Smee was shown as a human in A Curious Thing. Long after the return to Storybrooke.