Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161021174343/@comment-1916997-20161106232706

Nightlily wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Begfhn wrote: Is this episode going to have multiple flashbacks? 6 yr old Emma is returning. What do you think the significance will be? We could be seeng when Emma is given up by the Swan family. That's something that has been talked about alot, but never seen. I believe Emma was 3 or 4 when that happened, but the actress is still young enough to pull that off, so it's fine. No, I don't think she can. Emma was only three years old when it happened. In "Pilot", she says, "I ended up in the foster system and I had a family until I was three, but then they had their own so then they sent me back." The actress is too old to play a three-year old. Actors often play characters that they are technically too old or too young for though. And Once is no exception. Bailey played Young Snow when Regina saved her on the horse, and then she played Young Snow (that would have been even younger) when her mother died, a year later. Dylan did something similar by playing Baelfire between Seasons 1 and 3. And finally, Jared is playing a much younger Henry currently. It's to be expected though, especially with a show that jumps all over the timeline so much. It is not practical to have tons of different actors play the same character, as that becomes confusing. That's just my take though, who knows what they are doing.