Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161031005929/@comment-27257290-20161102232853

Eskaver wrote: Let's not devolve into how the curse works, but essentially you are right (as in the pilot). Even season 2 episode 1 acted as though the "world" was destroyed.

I thought that Regina was just lying when she said it was destroyed, though God knows why. But OK.