Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20140113165251/@comment-6175354-20140509130939

The Wicked Wizard of the West wrote:

Well that depends on what kind of timetravel it is: is it like in "12 Monkeys" where every thing was determined to be exactly what it turned out to be or is it like "Back to the future" where the travel back in time has only an effect when there is no possability for the future to be set right. Or is it like the TV show "7 Days" where you enter an alternative path of History by traveling back therfore eliminating your original History. So it realy is all about a deterministic vs a probabilistic understanding of time. Eddy and Adam keep referring to the final, as Back to the Future. Which is exactly why interviewers are already raising the question, if they are throwing away three years of story. It is a legitimate concern. Hopefully, they are using Back to the Future as a way to describe, that Emma has to play matchmaker for her parents. That ending works in a movie, but not on a tv show. I am hoping it is just a predetermined time-paradox, and Emma and Hook were there the whole time.