Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25617908-20151229021726/@comment-5679696-20151229032307

I think we have learnt in the show that there are many legends or rumors in the Fairy Tale Land that turn out to not be true. We have to stop taking everything everyone says as a canon fact, and instead as a simple statement someone makes. Lumiere has no way of knowing the absolute truth about the Dark Ones.

On the other hand, I only consider something as a retcon when they change something we know for a fact.

An example of the first kind of retcon are, besides the Dark One origin: Snow White said Regina cursed her because "she was prettier than her", and it was later revealed that the reason was very different... Yet, we never saw Regina say "I think you're prettier than me, so I curse you." Technically, the continuity here is intact... only Snow White is either lying or terribly narcissistic.

An example of what I actually think is a retcon: The timeline of the flashback events of the episodes "Queen of Hearts" and "Swan Song" a time span has been added in between two moments that were originally meant to be consecutive.