YAY for the flashback promo! I’m thinking that SB was zapped into being in some remote area that was supposed to be uninhabited, but Kurt and Owen happened to be camping there in the wilderness at the time, and ended up stuck in the middle of it.
From the promo it almost looks like they’re on a hill looking down into SB, not already in it. A completely uninhabited wood until *POP* a town appears. Also makes me wonder: after the curse was “fixed” (if that’s the issues in this episode, the curse not working 100%) what would happen if someone were to come near the town limits? I mean surely there have been people in the woods but in SB. Do they suddenly feel the need to turn around and go home? Do they pass “over” SB and appear on the other side without having actually gone through the town?