But have they ever specifically stated the ENTIRETY of the EF was taken in the curse? The original curse itself doesn’t make much sense to me — time stopped in all lands so easy peasy! Zelena’s the same age as her sister and not 30 years older come 3B! but not everyone in every land got scooped up and brought to our land? Why not? And now all-powerful was this curse if Cora was able to poke her little staff thingy on the ground and send up a giant bubble of protection?
Again, most definitely, it’s a stretch saying the ol’ Captain was able to outrun the curse. I agree. It would’ve made more sense to me to just say the curse didn’t reach that far or something. But if you can stretch your imagination enough to accept Regina’s initial casting of the curse, I don’t think it should be so difficult to believe there were ways around curse 2.0…