Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31464540-20170306233926/@comment-25733960-20170307203108

I liked 3B so it would have been exactly what we saw. Except for Gold "killing" Zelena in 3x20.

Then Zelena would have jumped in the time travel spell (followed by Emma and Hook trying to stop her) as the season 3 finale cliffhanger.

The whole 4A would have taken place in the EF from the past (like 3x21-3x22), with Hook and Emma asking for help to Rumple and Evil Queen from the past to defeat Zelena.

During the 4A episodes Emma and Hook (under a glamour spell) would have had encounters with the EF versions of the people Emma knows from SB (like Red, Jefferson, Pinocchio, Blue Fairy, Graham, Ariel, Snow, Charming, Belle etc).

At the end of 4A they would have defeat (killed) Zelena and returned to the present in the mid season finale only to find out that their actions on the past changed the present:

The Evil Queen never cast the Dark Curse, but it was done by Maleficent instead. So, SB is now Maleficent's realm. All the people are slaves (including Regina and Rumple) in a post apocalyptic version of SB. (visually similar to what we saw in "underbrooke" in 5B).

So 4B would have been a Maleficent/Sleeping Beauty arc