Reply To: Timeline Discussion

[Keb]

Rewatching 311 and more and more I’m leaning toward the idea that Rumple is 200 years old, not 300. Our evidence for 300 is mainly from interviews early on, not internal evidence from the show.

Evidence for an age of 200:

–14 yo Bae falls through a portal into our world (and Adam has said repeatedly that the Darlings are in our world) sometime after Big Ben exists. It was built in 1858, so, assuming there is no time travel in the Onceverse and time moves the same in FTL and our world, that means Bae could not have been born before 1844.
–Pan asks in 311, “What are you now, a couple hundred?” We know time DOES move differently in Neverland, or rather, doesn’t really move at all, so Pan’s sense of time is probably off. However, that suggests that perhaps our imp is less than 300.

Other internal evidence:
–Bae says in 215 that he’d be a couple hundred years old if he hadn’t gone to Neverland. But again, time is weird there and probably skews the senses. (This may also excuse Hook and Tink’s scene in 311 a bit–Hook’s acting like Bae just left the ship and Tink’s acting like it’s been years and years since she lost her wings and the two don’t quite compute with all the rest of the details, but with a weird time thing, it might feel that way to both of them.)
–Gold is definitely the Dark One when Geppetto, a man of at least 60, is a boy of seven or eight. So the events surrounding Bae’s disappearance had to happen at least 60 years before the Curse…which was cast 28 years before October 22nd 2011. Add 15 years for Bae’s growth and at least 30 for how old he was when Bae was born (I’ve estimated about 35 on my timeline)…and yeah.
–200 is actually a pretty neat timeline. If you assume he’s 200 at the time Emma comes to Storybrooke instead of 300, and adjust everything before Jiminy’s birth (at which point I started counting back from the Curse rather than forward from Rumple’s birth) to match, the dates line up with external markers beautifully.

But given the number of times we’ve heard that Rumple is 300, it’s hard to accept that 200 is more accurate to the timeline they’ve constructed. I dunno. What do you all think? What am I missing?