Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140619010238/@comment-4839682-20140621013325

Ktmae1234 wrote: If you remember in the pilot, the clock always set to 8:15 every morning. (In a nod to Lost.) But once Henry brought Emma back, the clock started moving.

The only problem I have is Henry. How did he grow up, emotionally and mentally, if he's in a loop? And what possessed MM to give him the book if they're in a loop? And what allowed MM to find the book in the trunk in her apartment in S3? White magic?

We've been told that Henry was clouded by the Curse, that he was affected by it. Of course, that's extremely ambiguous and totally open to debate. XD

I see it as, he is from the Land Without Magic, and was not truly cursed, so of course, time passes for him and he grows. However, it affected his mental state. Maybe he progressed in school every year, but his Curse-clouded mind kept him from seeing that no one else did.

MM finding the book is the same way. We simply don't know. It could be a trick of Rumplestiltskin's Curse, of the true love in it, that made the book appear in a place it needed to be to ultimately end up in the Savior coming to town.