@Phee wrote:
I’m inclined to think he’d have remained visible on the road and not seen the town again. He’s probably driven up and down that road multiple times over the years, hoping to find it. People can get into town if they know it’s there, but he’s a unique case because he wasn’t connected to FTL in any way, so he doesn’t have the gift of being able to see it from the outside, (until after the curse broke) the way Emma could when she was driving Henry back.
In science fiction it would be explained as “being out of phase”, it would take an injection of some sort of substance to sync with the phase Storybrooke is in or the barrier, portal does that change if you know how to activate it or someone activates it. 😉 Everyone from the Fairy Tale lands and other magical realms already have the marker to be able to cross the barrier or to get in phase with Storybrooke but not outsiders.
Owen / Greg does obviously remember that the town is there, so there seem to be no memory blocking spell at work. But Gregowen could be an exception, he and his father were inside the parameter when the curse was taking the land (liked the alien invasion style they did in the scene with Kurt and Owen in the woods).
I’d always questioned how SB functions in relation to supplies of food and stuff being replenished, because that would surely have to come from the outside. But having seen now how the town exists in a loop of sorts, I can buy that maybe stuff just never ran out and was magically reset to being fully stocked each day, eliminating the need for outside contact.
As long as the curse was intact it probably did provide the citizens of Storybrooke with everything. But the curse is now broken, so would expect some kind of effect. Not just the threat that now outsiders might come to town, but how does the town now supplies itself? Of course magic can be always used to explain things away, but that is in story telling sometimes a pain. If used too often as a convenient tool people stop to buy it eventually. And it is offers good breeding ground for plot holes.
Ah, these pesky little details, no wonder most fairy tales keep things vague.
If the people of Storybrooke now would need to find new ways to fill their fridge and get all the essentials of modern life it would put a lot more pressure on them to discuss, if and how they stay or if they go back. Let’s see how the heroes of Storybrooke would deal with some problems of common people and everyday life. (admittedly have a thing for shows which don’t take themselves all serious and play around with such things once in a while).
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