Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26715865-20150911060553/@comment-24674051-20150914145648

Actually, I think building in a time jump makes the story more believable. With the QOD arc, there was a minor time jump where the mains had a few weeks of "normal" living. yes, they were solving the riddle of releasing the Fairies, but there were no major crises to resolve.

In think, in the same way, there may be periods of time in the Camelot arc where there are no Major Crises (other than Emma's downward spiral), and that spiral is not going to happen over a short span of time. Even Rumple took a long time to fully complete the spiral. So there will be opportunites to jump a few weeks.

We may not see that initially with the Dark Swan. That may be something that is set up a couple of episodes in.