Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-28162607-20180220221000/@comment-91424-20180222183559

Emillian Swanones wrote: Nightlily wrote: AJDSOUAT wrote: Hmm, that's intresting. That would explain why there are Halloween decorations at Granny's in "The Doctor". Ah, no; those decorations were a goof, I'm afraid :-( Halloween takes place on October 31 and Emma's birthday is a week earlier. As we know, Emma was sent to our world when the Dark Curse was cast and she came to Storybrooke on her twenty-eight birthday (a major plot point in "Pilot"). However, a title card in "Queen of Hearts" (which takes place after "The Doctor") establishes that it's still 28 years since the curse was cast (as seen here), but the period of time between "Pilot" and S3E3 "Quite a Common Fairy" was less than a year (this is proven in "The Tower" when David states that it's been almost 30 years since Emma was born; since "The Tower" takes place one year after the first half of Season Three (as seen in "Going Home" - and the following episodes establish that twelve months pass during the time jump in this episode), this means that less than a year passes between "Pilot" (where Emma turns 28) and the second half of season three... So there is no way that "The Doctor" takes place on Halloween. But if several months passed between "The Return" and The "Stranger" (indicating the curse was broken almost a year after Emma arrived in Storybrooke) and there is a time jump of a year between 3A and 3B, then it would be almost 2 years, not less than a year.

Yes, which is why David says that it's been almost 30 years since Emma was born. If almost two years have passed since Emma came to Storybrooke on her 28th birthday, she would be almost 30 years old. Less than a year passes between "Pilot" and "Gong Home", and one year between 3A and 3B. Easy peasy.