Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6302057-20141115232542/@comment-25077005-20150511072350

Hmcooper4 wrote: Regarding Alexandra, Either she would have returned to the EF along with everyone else, or she would have been left. If she had been left, she would have died. with no one to care for her, out in the middle of nowhere, with no one around to even hear her cries. (Sorry for the dark picture). As is evidenced by her presence in Storybrook during 4A (the Mommy & Me class), Alex did not die, so she obviously was returned to the EF with Ella and Thomas. That's my thought, anyway.

The list of EF characters that were in the LWM during the original curse, but not brought by the first curse is getting quite extensive. So far, we have Cora (Deceased),  Pan (deceased), Felix (Deceased), The Lost Boys, Hook, Tinkerbell, Ingrid, Ursula, Cruella, Neal, Emma, Lily. I dont recall about the rest of Hook's crew, because by the point that Hook arrived, his crew would have had their memories back anyway. And I don't count the Darling children, as they are actually native to the LWM, not the EF.

Here's how I think it went. When the First curse was reversed, everyone that was in SB went back to the EF, regardless of how they arrived at storybrooke. Everyone that was outside of SB was left where they were. Everyone from the EF remembered their time in Storybrooke. the only people that had different memories were Emma and Henry, and I think THAT was Regina. She gave them false memories so that they would not have to deal with the memories of Storybrooke, since (at that time) they did not think that they would ever cross paths again.

Anyway that's my thought, and even with this theory, that leaves a plot hole. Actually Smee was stuck in Storybrooke during the first curse so he is the only one in Hook's crew that was succumb by the dark curse.