Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20171014181959/@comment-27060727-20171209065252

KnocknickKnock wrote: I honestly don't see the purpose of a Grown up Robin. The writers are doing slightly too much right now. They are sending everyone to a realm where time moves faster. I personally don't see the point.

I guess the writers needed a love interest for Alice and knew they wanted to bring back Bex, so for whatever magical reason, they made the age thing happen.

With Robin, Gideon, and Henry all oddly older, they might as well have done a sensible non magical flashforward and thrown in Neal and the CS kid for a real next generation spinoff. With what they're doing now, it's like the writers we're half thinking of this idea but didn't know what to do because they needed to stick in the veteran actors' unaged physical forms in for familiarity, so "magical realms" got thrusted upon a bunch of them.