While that explanation works for me, having just rewatched I’m not convinced. The vortex the rabbit opens out of fictional London probably closes back up and I’ll accept that. But the hole that opens in Granny’s literally EXPLODES, just like the hole that opens in the first shot of the show when Alice comes back to London as a little girl. Different portals it looks like.
Rabbit holes do appear to open quite violently on the destination end, but I still think they probably close themselves up too. If not, then there’ll forever be a big hole in the sky where Alice and Knave fell through.
Maybe the England where Alice come from is not our land without magic,
It’s not. Adam has confirmed that the London that Alice is from is FictionalLondon, but the London where Bae met the Darlings was RealLondon in our world.
Is Wonderland still meant to be right after Broken? I’m not so sure about that. The original 20 min presentation very clearly began during that, but not the aired episode. Personally, I’d rather believe it beings right before “Second Star to the Right”, if only because it keeps the show’s timeline more synchronized with the parent one.
That would be a good question for K&H at some point. Without the Wraith appearing in the final cut of the episode, it’s entirely possible that it was at a different time.
My question is, how did Alice not age for 28 years? We know Jefferson was taken by the curse and the curse lasted 28 years hence why the hatter hadn’t been seen for “some time”. The knave was in Storybrooke and since this takes place during Broken, the Knave would have had to have been in Storybrooke for the duration of the curse- 28 years. Since Alice knew where the hatter lived, she must have met him before the curse was cast.
Alice had to ask the Rabbit where the Hatter’s house was, but I do like to think that she’d met him on her first visit to WL. The t-word is messing with my head, because Alice is early 20s, (actress is 23), so if time runs concurrently in FictionalLondon, FTL, and our world, she wasn’t born until after the Curse was cast. But Knave got swept up in the Curse, and also knows Alice and Cyrus. Soooo…*headdesk*.