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So I was thinking….
Storybrooke was frozen in time…everyone was in a haze of some sort, so no one noticed that Ashley had been pregnant for 28 years or that Henry is the only kid at school who ages.
How does this work? Did they just relive the same day over and over? The same year perhaps? Did things never change at all? What were their lives like before Emma arrived and the clock started moving again. Were Regina and Rumple bored to tears in this world because they had their memories? How were they frozen in time yet still able to go through daily life?
Also, even though the town has been in limbo for 28 years, they have some younger than 28 years technology like the internet and cellphones- although they seem dated compared to today.
And if they have internet, how do they not have more contact with the outside world?
I think too much about stuff like this! It’s usually difficult to apply real world logic to a fantasy….
[adrotate group="5"]@AngieBelle wrote:
Did they just relive the same day over and over? The same year perhaps?
They’d have to relive the same year I guess, because we’ve seen things like Valentine’s Day, which is a universal annual event, and they also have Miner’s Day, which is a Storybrooke exclusive annual event. So they must cross days off the calendar like we do in the normal world.
Also, they do actually have time passing, because they can tell the time, they have watches and clocks, and it’s only the big clock in town that didn’t work, but everyone just figured it was broken and was no big deal.
So they DO notice the passage of hours, days, months, years, they just don’t notice that no one ever ages or changes, (and no one notices that Henry is different).
I guess maybe at the end of each annual cycle, everyone just goes back to the beginning again, like the kids who show up for their next year of school, still in the same class, with the same teacher, about to be taught the same lessons for the 28th time.
@AngieBelle wrote:
Also, even though the town has been in limbo for 28 years, they have some younger than 28 years technology like the internet and cellphones- although they seem dated compared to today.
Yes, this is so odd to me. They came to our world in 1983 (start year of the show – Emma’s age), but that technology they have is more modern than ’83, but not as modern as today. Mary’s phone has to be sometime after 2003, coz this is what Nokia was releasing in 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100
And they’re not all dressed like ’83 either, (thank God LOL). So they do get new things in town, new trends, but it doesn’t register with them that that means time is passing so they should be ageing.
@AngieBelle wrote:
And if they have internet, how do they not have more contact with the outside world?
Maybe their internet is censored in a way, so only certain portions of it are accessible. Like, they can access sites that are purely informational, but sites that involve interaction with others, (such as the one we’re on now) just don’t exist as far as they know.
Also, on the topic of communication with the outside world, a point I brought up in another thread recently, how does stuff get into town? The food, the groceries, the toiletries, the comic books, the clothes…stuff that is from OUR world and needs to be regularly re-stocked on store shelves in Storybrooke. How does that happen if no one has contact with people in the outside world, and even if they did, the delivery guys can’t come into town and no one can leave town to pick stuff up?
I dunno if we’re meant to really think too much about this stuff, or if we’re just meant to accept that it happens somehow.
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