Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26151936-20150227150010/@comment-1916997-20150303174702

BroKarl wrote: I agree that no one ages in Neverland but what reference is there in the show that Hook and Smee were there hundreds of years. I know they are both hundreds of years old but is there any reference on the show that they were in Neverland for all of those years. We do know they both also lived where Rumple and Mela lived and were already aged when they first saw Rumple. We can only assume they were in Neverland  but that I can remember, there is no reference that they were there

And in regards to the Bae/Neal story being over because hes dead, does not mean there is nothing else we can learn about him. Cora was dead too and after she died we learned about her love life as a young woman and that she had another child, Zelena. There was no hint to any of that while she was living. Regina did'nt even know. We didnt even know there was a Zelana when Cora died .Only a hint that she had an affair with Rumple, The bulk of that relationship we didnt learn about untill after she died

What I like about this show is, everytime we think we know everything there is to know  about a character, we find out we didn't. Bae/Neil could have had another child, Henry could have a sister ..... anything could have happened. Just because we didn't see or it doesnt say, doesnt meant it didnt happen. This show is always springing things on us It's pretty heavily implied Hook was in Neverland the whole time, based on the fact he didn't age, and also various things we saw in the Neverland arc, such as his knowledge of the island, knowledge about Pan, and even the line to Felix about remember what he did to Rufio. As for Bae/Neal, yes, we can learn more about him in the flashbacks, but it will still be to explain something else in the plot. For example, the Cora episode in Zelena's arc was to explain how Zelena was conceived and why she was abandoned. It also cleared up something that bothered alot of people in Season 2, the fact that Cora killed Eva, and all we ever saw Eva do to Cora is trip her. Even by Cora's standards, killing someone for tripping you one time seems extreme. So yes, we can still get new information about Bae/Neal, but it will have to be to clarify or give insight to other characters or things in the plot.