@AngieBelle wrote:
The story of the Mad Hatter has to take place some time before Alice’s visit because he is already mad when she meets him. Alice would not be in fairytale land. She goes to Wonderland from *our* world, remember? She lives in England around the turn of the century. If we see Alice, it would only be in a flashback to her time in Wonderland unless she somehow ended up in the fairytale realm after going down the rabbit hole.
I just wanted to comment on one thing I left out as far as speculation goes, if they choose to go the route you suggest by following the original story pretty closely that could have some really neat implications in the future. Since if they choose to make Alice come from our world and accidentally transport her self to wonderland than that opens the door up for all sorts of cross world travel. Which if a character like Regina was able to move from world to world that could be a lot of trouble for Emma. That would be a really neat twist in the story.