Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20171029001047/@comment-25926288-20171029105413

Well, I can assure you that they cut some scenes (based on filming stuff).

We don't know how anything works as with time dilation and inter-realm communication, but Belle wasn't alone for roughly 30 years (to her) with Rumple. They clearly had to get half of that furniture and stuff from somewhere else.

If communication is slightly realistic, the SB folk could still be getting messages from Belle from years ago (Edge of Realm time). Some odd time compression thingy could be happening.

Plus, they really had no time in the episode to devote to "Let's have Belle speak to a mirror" to convey she was talking to someone. I guess you could tweet the writers and I'm certain that they would say yes.