Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20160302221846/@comment-27213286-20160316205517

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Frulna wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Francis Paul commented in the "Only You" thread that one of the dresses shown in the BTS pics looks to be the same dress as Alice's wedding dress.

You know, with what was revealed about the 2 "brothers", and now this about the dress, it is possible that they may be getting ready to incorporate Victorean England into the main show (it was introduced in Wonderland, but never actually incorporated into the main). Meaning that the asylum could be the same one that Alice was trapped in, and Jacob could be an assitant to the psychiatrist from Wonderland. and maybe Nathaniel was a friend of Alice's.

Or, in any case, they may finally be getting ready to set up and answer questions regarding the disjointed timeline between Wonderland and Once. It's not really disjointed at all. "Down The Rabbit Hole" takes place the same night as "Broken", "Heart Of The Matter" takes place shortly after "The Doctor", and presumably the fight with Jafar ends shortly before Snow and Emma return in "Queen Of Hearts".

What's disjointed is the flashbacks. Anastasia is clearly meant to be Cinderella's stepsister, but she's been ruling Wonderland for at least 8 years prior to the Curse (she's mentioned in Jefferson's story in Out of the Past as the Red Queen, while Grace was 2, who was 10 when the Curse hit as she's in the same grade as Henry, a 10 year old). Meanwhile, Cinderella met Thomas about... 4-5 years prior to the Curse, since her deal with Rumple is a direct result of Rumple's deal with George (which gives him Charming).

Unless we have Snowing's timeline way off, as well as Cinderella and Thomas having the longest courtship on earth, that means that Jabberwocky was wrong (or Drizella also landed a prince... Or there was a 4th sister and Cinderella was the youngest... Or that Anastasia went back to the EF to show off her royal status and magical powers to Lady Tremaine).

If you're talking about Will in Season 4, we know for a fact that it happens post-Wonderland 'cause A&E said so. What we don't know is what happened to him and Ana, and how (or even if) they get back together by the time of the flash-forward with Alice's daughter. (Which considering the show ends in 2012 and the girl looks at least 6, has to happen in 2018 or later, probably after the end of the main show.) Hell, we don't even know if Alice just decided to give her deceased friends a happy ending or not.

That being said, I'd love for Victorian England to be brought into main Once, and I'd love if these "brothers" tied into Alice. I don't think Anastasia is connected to Cinderella in anyway, if the writers were thinking about making that connection hen they named her I think they have since changed their mind. Nothing about the character except for the first name would make one think she is Anastasia Tremaine.  The name could easily have been meant to be Anastasia Nikolaevna if the show was trying to get the rights from fox when they named her. Jabber straight up says a prince chose her stepsister over her. What other story has a girl and her stepsister fighting over a man? Losing one or both parents is quite common in fairytales and everything Disney making step parents and siblings not uncommon.