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@Sarah_TN wrote:

Hook and Cora were the only two standing inside that bubble while smoke was all around them, and people were being transported to Storybrooke.

Also: Hook’s crew: Why wouldn’t they have been transported as well? Wouldn’t they have lost their memories and been placed into a different life like everybody else?

On the other hand, we know that Mulan, Aurora, and others were not transported. Why?

I’ve got some missing pieces of info here.

Here is my best guess as to why Smee ended up in SB, and Captain Hook didn’t. I posted it on page 3 of this thread:

I am starting to doubt Captain Hook left his entire crew behind him in Neverland. We know he had his ship in the remanent of the EF, because he used it to sail with Cora to SB. Also, we know Smee ended up in SB. So, the simplest answer in my mind is that Captain Hook and his crew sailed the Jolly Roger to the EF 30 years ago. Smee and the other pirates were affected by the dark curse and transported to SB. Captain Hook and Cora remained behind in the bubble-protected remanent of the EF until they sailed his ship to SB.

Hook’s crew were most likely in the EF when the curse hit, and so they were transported along with almost everyone else to SB , which is why Smee was there. When Cora cast the bubble spell to counteract the dark curse, it only protected a small remanent of the EF, including the small peninsula where the survivors made camp and Aurora’s kingdom, where Prince Philip and Mulan found her. We don’t know why they were spared except that they happened to be in Cora’s bubble, whereas everyone outside of that bubble were not protected and so the dark curse transported them to SB.