Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150316010241/@comment-5106672-20150317011942

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Utter solitude wrote: That's a good point XD

Honestly, back in season one, it was always my thought that supplies just appeared in town, then were disbursed around. That could be what the train is for-- maybe back in those days, the supplies came in via train (which is common for the state of Maine, it's basically a giant forest) and the Cursed citizens figured it was the usual delivery. XD Now it's still doing its job, since the citizens can't leave.

Does that make sense? It's something I love thinking about XD I think the train is just a normal freight train that passes through part of the outer reaches of Storybrooke. Like before the curse it would just be going through forest, but then Storybrooke appeared, so it is just going through that now. I don't know why everyone is freaking out about the train, we know the area where SB appeared was mostly forest, but there still has to be civilization around it. I'm sure Kurt didn't take Owen 500 miles from civilization to go camping. Sure, but you know, cloaking spell. Like, several ones, over time. Although it was never specified what happened to whomever was not Emma or August or Ingrid and tried to crash into the cloaked town line. Part of John and Michael Darling's car was severed by the descending cloaking spell, but if I'm not mistaken it was implied that Greg Mendel tried to crash into town for several years before the Curse was broken and he could just drive in, and he clearly survived. So who knows? Do you just get teleported to another place? Do you actually travel but you don't remember? Maybe Snow's curse + Ingrid's spell changed that? Maybe the train goes on a fixed path (the railroad) and has enough momentum to go in and get out? That's the magic of the show: it has us hardcore fans speculate over small details.

Hmcooper4 wrote: Unless, of course, that was NOT the end of the story. Keep in mind that making people fall asleep is evidently one of Mal's trademarks. (look at what she did to the entire castle of Snow and Charming.) Maybe what we saw was just a threat, with the promise that not only was Aurora going to be cursed, but so was Philip, then Mal just knocked her out and escaped. Giving Aurora time to contemplate the meaning of her existence before applying the coup-de-gras. The actual sacrifice and sleeping curse could be yet to come.

I really hope so. Moral coercion works to activate the Sleeping Curse (Snow wasn't exactly willing to curse herself, she was blackmailed), but here Maleficent physically assaulted Aurora. Your explanation is the most reasonable, but once again I hope they set it straight within the show.