Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20160929050506/@comment-25375217-20161123180848

FrancisPaul wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Good point on the banishment of the Black Fairy. This has to be well after the Black Fairy's banishment.

I will be interested to see how they reconcile 3x11 and 3x22. My most likely scenario headcanon (at this point) is that this episode's backstory takes place concurrent to 3x22. Story goes like this. After Rumple encounters Emma and Killian, he somehow manages to steal the wand from Blue in order to be able to reproduce the effects of the Time Travel spell (seeing this as an opportunity to change what happened with him and Bae). He leaves the wand with Emma (as we saw in 3x22), and she does reproduce the spell. But in the process, Rumple drank the forgetting potion  (again, seen in 3x22) and so forgot why he wanted the wand. and to make matters worse, he is confronted by Blue as she retrieves the wand, and sometime during this encounter we find out about the source of Rumple's hatred of Fairies. (as if Blue giving Bae a magic bean was not enough). Nice theory about this episode taking place during the alternate timeline.

But I still say it is just an assumption to claim that the wand in 322 is the Black Fairy's Wand just because it is the same prop.

We have nearly 43748753 examples of props that were reused for no other reason than being reused. It alone doesn't mean that the item is meant to be the same at all (even if in this specific case it seems it will turn out to be). It's not just the same prop, though. It's the same prop used for a very specific reason attributed to the item that previously used said prop, which was unique in its introduction. Our options here are: 1) It's the same thing, or 2) they just completely ignored that the Black Fairy's wand is a uniquely powerful item for the sake of plot. What's your preference? :P