Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-31937823-20180405010135/@comment-27060727-20180502204419

8Rob wrote: JennaMae wrote:

Robin's still the glaring anomaly but I guess that'll just have to go unsettled. That's like the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about, but we all know they did it because they wanted a lesbian couple in they show. That's it. It's weird to me because Robin is like the one person whose age they've confirmed on-screen. Twice. Like the writers refuse to acknowledge Henry's or Regina's, but they thought it was safe to address Robin's, so they gave out her age at two time points instead of "vague # of years" but did not factor in that Robin in particular would have to make sense in both SB years and NEF years.

I mean, if they wanted an adult Robin for Alice, then okay. They should've taken a few minutes in the writers room to establish that first, and build off of it for other characters. When Robin is 25, Neal can be 25-26, Hope can be 18. Henry is like 40 when Lucy is 8, etc. Age up the older generation a bit.

I'm not a TV writer, but wouldn't it have been easier on them if they had sorted out the timeline beforehand and adhered to guidelines they had set? Now they're apparently just content with "we have no idea what's going on anymore."