@Keb: The information you put together makes 200 years look plausible.
What is frustrating for the fans is a nice or practical thing for writers. The phrase “a couple of hundred years” is a rather vague information, could be somewhat more than one hundred, could be two, maybe three, maybe more… it says the person is older, likely older than normal people would become, but not exactly how old, nor does the information nail the timeline in a way you have to absolutely stick to it. It leaves time open to play with. Rule of writing: Don’t give (precise) information unless you absolutely have to – that goes for time and date as much as for places. Fairy tales are a prominent example of tales keeping details like time, date, places vague – which makes them so successful over ages.
I am sure, that they have a timeline in their writers room, or maybe should call it more a sequence of order of events, because I doubt that they have nailed it all as a detailed chronology of OUaT history. 200 or 300 year – that is not so important at the moment, it’s likely something in between. Writers need a certain degree of flexibility to add new levels to the stories. And 10 or 5 years – that might be important for teenagers, but at some point the difference can get a bit blurry 😉
Just noting: Interesting how we obsess about the timeline while fairy tales are such time-less things. Last time I had that many discussions about a timeline was with Star Trek (it could drive nuts, even more so thanks to writers not paying attention to Stardates, so of course there had to be some calendar and time measuring reforms in the Federation besides some wacky time phenomenon explanations, and thanks to Abrams most of it now has changed anyway, LOL)
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