Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25762747-20160102074246/@comment-26159109-20160102130443

Farerb wrote: FrancisPaul wrote: You have a point with Aurora/Maleficent comparison. But if we go with "cursed no matter what state they're in", no matter if they're conscious, then Donna and Stephen are cursed as well, and Daniel.

As to Bae's example, I disagree. The reason he and Hook (or Tink, for that matter) didn't leave town, is that Emma wouldn't remember neither of them. They thought the undoing of the curse was permanent, forever. It would be even more painful to be with an oblivious Emma and Henry. It seemed easier to give up and be sent back to the EF.

Yeah, the Apprentice probably was cursed. I don't know what to do with his case. I too believe that Ingrid was cursed. It makes more sense.

Again, I dream of the day all counterparts will be merged. No more endless discussions about this ton of exceptions that make us think there is no rule at all. But we had that discussion, and the community prefers it this way. That's not true though, Emma still remembered Neal. The problem I see here is that the undoing of the curse doesn't make sense with Ursula and Cruella, and the second curse doesn't make sense with Ingrid and the apprentice. They kind of ignore both happened from season 4 onward. Continued:

Since they don't really care about that and ignore it then we shouldn't care about it as well and pretend that the second curse didn't affect any of them, thus changing the apprentice's colors.