Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-7526254-20180318023955

Walecs wrote: In my opinion this is what it's been like:

- Few months before the curse Wish Hook went to NEF and he and Gothel gave birth to Alice (7x07)

- Little time passes in the old EF and the Wish Realm (like a few months) but 10 years pass in the NEF (because time flows faster). Because of this Wish Hook and Alice are 10 years older in 7x13.

- Hook goes back to Wish Realm (possibly looking for a way to save Alice) but the curse is cast; Cora's spell freezes all realms in time, including NEF but not Wish Realm since it exists in a timeline with no curse. Because of Cora's spell, Wish Hook can't move to the NEF (or maybe he can, but because time is frozen and Alice can't move, he decides to go back to Wish Realm). He stays in Wish Realm for 28 years, until Emma goes to Storybrooke and time starts moving again. Because of this Hook has aged this many years. This explanation makes the most sense. However, 7X07 should have taken place no more than a few weeks before the curse and 10 years passing in that amount of time does not make sense. This would mean all the characters alive before the curse would be dead by the time of Henry's arrival. The theory that the curse affected the Wish Realm makes sense because that would make Ella only a few years older than Henry. This episode sort of disproved the theory. I don't see how this could have all happened before the curse.

As for the whole Alice meeting Ella's mom thing, Alice lying makes even more sense. Why would Alice lie? And how did she even know Ella's mom was poisoned. This only raises more questions and completely ruins the story.