Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160404163510/@comment-24674051-20160408165143

With most of the stuff that happens on TV Shows in general, and with Once in particular, a healthy application of Occam's Razor would be in order.

For those that do not know Occam's Razor, it is basically states that where there are competing hypotheses, the one that has the fewest assumptions should be favored.

Applying Occam's razor does not invalidate the other hypotheses, it just helps select the one that is the most likely (until some point comes along and proves that it was in fact incorrect).

So for Baelfire being in our LWM London, there have been several conjectures. However, what we were shown is that  Baelfire  entered the portal in the EF, and landed in London. We can conjecture all we want, but the simplest explanation (the one requiring the fewest assumptions) is that  Baelfire  went straight from the EF to London without any side stops.

Jeffersons comment on there being multiple LWM is fairly straightforward. Jefferson has shown himself to be a person that can generally be trusted, so his statement can be taken at face value. and honestly, it would be hard to prove otherwise.

Dorothy and Kansas is a little trickier. Rumple's comment suggests that Dorothy is from a LWM, but fact is that Rumple is not all knowing. So we can't take that statment at face value. We know that Dorothy arrived via cyclone, and so far the only time we have seen cyclones are between lands that have magic. (and for the purposes of this argument, Storybrook is an island of magic in an otherwise magicless world, and can be considered a land WITH magic). So, without making any further assumptions, we can surmise that Dorothy is in fact from a land with Magic. That it is a seperate land from Oz is (or at least was) debateable,  there is no proof either way. Of course, that is all water under the bridge, since we have confirmation (though still not canon at this point) that Kansas is in a seperate realm from any of the others we've seen.