Reply To: Andrew Chambliss Explains Timeline

[Keb]

Copying over the calculations I did just after 504 in the Favorite Moments thread. But it definitely tracks (and confirms that my timeline is pretty close to accurate…as well as that A&E and team take great liberties with how time works).

Okay, some relevant dates as I haven’t really started timelining S5 yet (and please keep in mind that ALL my dates are estimates with a few exceptions):

6/18/2013: Emma becomes The Dark One.
6/7/2013: Gold’s return to Storybrooke (start of QoD arc)
4/18/2013: Belle banishes Rumple (end of Frozen arc)
4/6/2013: Emma, Hook, and “Marian”/Zelena return from the past. (End of S3/Zelena arc)
3/26/2013: Hook finds Emma in New York (end of the Missing Year)
4/1/2012: Belle & Neal visit the Dark One Vault. (In the missing year, early on)
3/26/2012: Regina undoes the curse and the missing year starts.
3/19/2012: Jolly Roger goes to Neverland to rescue Henry (end of S2)
2/23/2012: Emma breaks The Curse. (End of S1)
10/23/2011: Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke (start of S1) and time begins moving again in all the affected magical realms.
10/22/1983: Emma’s birth/The curse is enacted. Time is frozen in all the magical realms.
1/21/1983: Snow and Charming’s public wedding.
4/11/1982: Snow and Charming’s private wedding, officiated by Lancelot.
4/30/1981: Belle leaves the Dark Castle.
2/1/1981: Rumple shows Belle the gauntlet he just took from Camelot.
12/31/1980: Roland born. (I have Marian saved about a week before this.)
12/19/1980: Belle goes to the Dark Castle.

So, if my date for the gauntlet is close: 2/1/1981 puts it 34 months before the curse. Since time began moving again, I have it at about 21 months now, give or take. (22 if you go to the six weeks, but that’s not when the show claimed 5 years). 55 months comes out to 4.58 years. It’s…fudging a bit, but I’ll give them 5. PLUS 28.