Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171209015815/@comment-7526254-20171209160331

This was a great episode, but now I am even more confused about the timeline. Has it been confirmed that the new Enchanted Forrest is pat of the Wish Realm? It must be, if the tower Hook went to was the same one Lady Tremaine was trapped in.If everyone is in the same realm, how are they all experiencing a different amount of time?

Ana and Drizella are about 4 and 6 when their mother is trapped. She returns 6 years later. In another 2 years, when Anna is 14, she dies. At this point Cecelia is aleady believed to be dead. Some time later, Rapunzel traps Gothel. This is before Alice is born. Alice is supposedly at least in her teens when she escapes the tower and goes to Wonderland, but she meets Cecelia, who is still alive. Even assuming Cecelia didn't die until years after her heart was poisoned, it would have been before her husband died. This means that Alice must have aged really quickly while trapped in the tower, despite being in the same realm.

Drizella is supposedly around 18 when she turns evil,meaning her mother has appeared to have aged 20 years in only 6 years. Is Drizella a lot older than we think she is?

From what we saw in the Wish Realm last season, time still moves the same. All the characters were the same age they would have been without the curse. This would make Alice the same age as Emma, though she appears to be in her early 20s. If we also consider how she aged rapidly in the tower, she must have not aged at all in Neverland.

Ella and her step-sisters would all be at least 12 years older than Alice if she didn't age differently.

Hopefully some of this will be explained.

Great character development with Rapunzel/Tremaine. It still doesn't really make sense that she blamed Marcus for Ana's death. It seemed like he tried to save both, but was only able to save Ella, not having a choice, while Rapunzel did absolutely nothing. Drizella claims she did everything to win her mother's love, when in fact she's the one who shut her mother out. She was only a little girl then. It is possible that when she got older she realized the sacrifice her mother made for her, but it was too late to fix their relationship.