I think the thing you have to be mindful of with this show is saying “that doesn’t make sense because . . .” I love everyone’s theories and I don’t write any of them off because they don’t make sense according to how the original fairy tale is written. That’s why I think Cora was married to Rumple and is Bae’s mother – I am not considering that the original Rumplestiltskin story is an issue that causes a problem with that theory, I’m going by things that Cora said that seem to make sense based upon what has happened so far on the show and based upon things that Rumple has said that seem to fall into place based upon Cora’s comments.
It would be like saying it doesn’t make any sense for Red to also be the wolf because in the Little Red Riding Hood story the wolf pretends to be her grandmother and talks to her when she arrives at her grandmothers house and that would mean that she is having a schizophrenic episode. On this show they don’t always stick to the original storyline. So even though they have said that Cora is the Miller’s Daughter doesn’t mean that the whole spinning straw into gold thing even happened. They could have twisted it to make it so the Miller’s Daughter married Rumple before either of them had magic, they had Bae and then she LEFT him with her first born when she decided to become powerful. I’m not saying I’m right, but I do think you have to be careful with discounting theories because they don’t follow they original fairy tale.
That’s the reason I have about four different theories of who August could be. There is no clear cut method of which direction they seem to go in on this show – it’s kind of all over the place. In fact after seeing the episode with Cora I have a theory for August – especially since he mentioned Lemurs (which I actually think he meant Lemures – the spirits of dead ancestors who had unfair deaths now) and I wonder if August could be Daniel who is back somehow to try to end the curse to redeem Regina’s soul. I wonder if his motorcycle represents a horse.