Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140530013558/@comment-24674051-20140604165934

LunaLavgud wrote: Ruby ridinghood wrote: LunaLavgud wrote: Emma deserves some blame because she did bring Marion back. But think about would anyone save an inocent woman, I think even Regina would do it.As for Hook i think he is not to blame he didn't take te urn deliberately. He didn't know that the ice queen is in the urn. Now Rumple, well there are two ways of seeing what Rumple did. For CS shipers he did an amazing thing they bonded and they are together. For OQ shipers he did the worst thinh ever Emma and Hook went pack and brought Marian back Emma deserves the blame for Marion being in Storybrooke. She could have saved her without having to bring her back with her & Hook. But than she would find Robin and he wouldn't be in Storybrooke and he would never meet Regina That's not necessarily true, and this is why Time Travel paradoxes drive me bonkers.

In the original timeline, we are to presume that Regina had captured Marion as some poor soul accused of helping Snow White. (Whether even that is true or not remains to be seen, since Snow and Marion were not shown interacting at the coronation ceremony). She was sentenced to be executed, and for all we know, that sentence was carried out. I say for all we know, because we don't know what happened in the original timeline, except for bits and pieces cobbled together from Robin's story (which has not yet been fully explored).

By removing Marion from the time line, it is as if she had died, and all events from that point to the present should remain unchanged (barring what was already affected by Emma's interference with Snow and Charming).

Here are some questions to ponder:

1. Was Marion actually executed, or did Regina maybe do something else with her in the original timeline?

2. Is it possible that someone else rescued Marion in the original timeline, but kept her out of the way (like say some other family membe)?

3. Did Regina use Marion as a bargaining chip with someone, say the Sheriff of Nottingham, letting them have her as part of some deal? and then the Sheriff (or whoever) kept her locked away somewhere?

4. (And this is why I hate time travel) Is it possible that Emma rescueing Marion was the original timeline? If this is the case, then everything going forward will proceed as it was destined to. (This also brings up a whole nuther argurment regarding free will vs pre-destination that I won't get into).