Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161021174343/@comment-27060727-20161102020903

Eskaver wrote: Maybe Emma's dreaming or simply trapped somewhere weird. Noone else appears to be in an AU. There's an Emma flashback (I assume via clothing) and the rest of the season resumes as normal.

There's the previous episode with EQ, Regina, Robin and Stealthy, but perhaps it's some wish or major magic mojo that EQ conjures gone awry and/or the dead make a temporary visit of some sort. Then this episode is Emma facing her villain but ends in some weird state of fate. (And/or Regina is dead in a weird world as are the dwarves, lol). Rumple is the other living person that looks to be appearing in the AU.

On that first day of filming with most of the mains in the forest - we have pics of Sparkly Rumple and Robin his classic forest archer outfit. Emma, Snow, and David were also filming there, but we have no pictures to gauge which version of themselves they might've been. Regina, however, was in modern clothing. Jen's set pics since then have me thinking she's dressed for the AU. That's why I'm thinking this weird reality is for Regina - at least initially. She's the one (other than perhaps Rumple w/ the shears) who would be wishing for something/someone and has always been the one who has wanted to change her path.

Although the news of an Emma flashback does give me pause.......