*I* was the one in Barbara’s chatroom trying to explain about the fictional London- she was driving me crazy! I couldn’t understand how she couldn’t get what I was trying to say. Clearly Alice is not from real world Victorian London because they show Storybrooke existing at the same time as she was in the asylum. Adam has said Alice is from fictional London and the Darlings are in real London which is a bit odd because how can fictional characters exist in the real world?
Ah, well thank you for at least trying to explain it to her, because I was about ready to yell at my computer in frustration when I was listening to it! It is an oddity that they’ve turned the fictional characters of the Darlings into real world people, but I think that once you have the info that Adam has stated that they’re in RealLondon, and Alice is in FictionalLondon, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around who’s where and when. (Though Neal’s line about this world not having been his first stop will never not bug me, but it is what it is.)