Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.47.6.95-20130609205603/@comment-5106672-20131019010809

Utter solitude wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote: Doesn't make much sense to me, but well... Well, what exactly doesn't make sense?

In the first episode of Wonderland, the Knave was in Storybrooke while the Wraith was attacking. He then portal jumped to Alice's world. This means that the events going on at that time in Alice's world occured during the events of "Broken".

It's an eternal Victorian England, it would seem. The entire premise of an Ever-Victorian land, honestly. I mean, I understand it, but I think it's a superfluous complication to the already not-so-linear OUAT multiverse. Another Land Without Magic where people don't believe in magic for what reason exactly, the fancy Victorian clothes? Might as well have been the Land Without Colour, at this point, it would have made more sense. But well, at least the alternate universe trick would explain why the asylum Alice was locked up in seemd to treat their patients in a historically very inaccurate decent way, compared to real-life Victorian asylums (ie: Alice still had her long hair, she was asked for formal permission before undergoing seriously damaging treatment, the inmates seemd to have their own cell rather than being overcrowded, no sign of physical abuse, and so on…).

On a side note, I've been skeptical about Once:Wonderland from the beginning because I came to loathe that novel due to my past goth days, so that's why I tend to be very harsh and judgemental about anyting related to it.