Here is a crazy thought, what if we are getting a prequel. So we have teacher Rumple, student Regina, and why Hook is there who knows but he is (which would allow A and E to keep pirate non fat Hook). This would be before Charming and Snow and before Belle so they would not be there. Any Snow we would have would be Snow as a teenager or preteen. Now how Henry and mysterious girl work into it I don’t know. Maybe they have to travel back in time for some unknown reason and change something to preserve all the happy endings. I would almost prefer this scenario because the more I think about it the more I need Rumple to be very complex and he is at his best as a desperate father trying to get back or keep his son. If we are in the WR what is Rumple’s motivation, he would just be an one dimensional character without any depth and that would suck.