Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-10663213-20180515200554/@comment-26967699-20180516183039

8Rob wrote: JennaMae wrote:

So I guess Robin and Alice were only going to Storybrooke for Zelena to begin with? Maybe they wanted to keep the potential timeline damage minimal and were just planning on approaching one person. In that case they should have gone to California to talk to Kelly Zelena Guys... No one is going to "damage the timeline". Even if they tried, they can't. It's a closed time loop. Whatever happened happened. They can't change a bit. It's NOT like Zelena's time travel spell.

I see the time travels in this way:

Zelena's was like the Back to the Future time travel. It can change the past; and with one difference, it can create entire new reality.

Gothel's was more like Lost time travel. And as they said (and it's evidenced) thousands of times... You. Cannot. Change. The. Past... That's it. So nothing to be worry about.