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Farerb wrote: ItachiIshtar wrote: Eskaver wrote: It has been a plot hole ever since, especially with them going to see Rumple and him telling them about Emma when Maelficent apparently did so this season. I think they wrote their way around it in "Best Laid Plans", by having Charming tell Snow "maybe they were just words", tying back to how he says "they're just words" back in the pilot. It's still very contrived. They shouldn't be intentionally looking to retcon things and coming up with contrived reasons to explain them. That just makes the audience question things, and results in them finding plot holes. They really did. And everyone hear didn't think that was A&E solution to the situation, and still kept it in Season 4 page. And I was like, this is how they handle things.

I never really got why forgetting potion wasn't used. Made more sense. They were saving it up for Roland (for no real reason since he's more offscreen than Baby Neal). Can't use all the overused tactics (temporal amnesia = forgetting potion). The fun part is that you are right and it would make sense if it just broke after the second curse was broken and then they remembered what they did to Mal and that would explain why it wasn't mentioned before. They really could have avoided all the questions if they really though about it and not contrive a new, fantastical way up!