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Hmcooper4 wrote: Ok, I"ll have to catch up on the thread as a whole later.

When did they change the rules about the Dark Curse. The story has been, at least up until "Dark Waters" that time was frozen in all lands. Now all of the sudden we have Killian able to sail around in the JR? Admittedly, the actual cloud portion of the curse probably disipated after a few days, and the need for Cora's protection spell was removed. But people did not age in the EF (or so we were told). And yet now we have Liam II as a young adult, and at least close to the right age for what he was represented to be.

They didn't change nature of the Dark Curse. The reason why Hook was able to sail around the JR, is that this story takes place after the curse weakened and time started moving again, as a result of Emma deciding to stay in SB in "Pilot". This is explained in "Broken", where Mulan says to Aurora, "For twenty-eight years, we were frozen. And then… Time started again. The terrible curse's power was weakened. Phillip and I were able to resume our search." Which means that this flashback takes place after the curse weakened and time started moving again in SB and FTL, and before the curse was broken in "A Land Without Magic".

As for Liam, he escaped the curse, and therefore aged naturally. Andrew Chambliss confirmed this on Twitter.