It’s possible though it will have to be a good explanation as to why Henry is SO special that he still ages there. They’ve made him special already since his picture was there long before he was born, but I’m not sure if they will go beyond that and bend the rules of NL that they’ve set up so far. If they do, I expect it to have a good explanation and it’s a possibility, I just don’t see it as that likely as of this time.
So the problem I had with it wasn’t really the possibility, but the jump that a lot are making in saying that’s how it’ll be explained because we know NL time passes faster than it did in FTL (which seems to run side-by-side with SB).
I fully expect the people in SB to think that the others have only been gone for a short time while they’ll feel like they’ve been gone for awhile, but I’m not comfortable with making the leap that that’s how they’ll explain Henry aging just yet.
There will be a lot of stuff regarding Henry being special to PP and that may be one of them, but just saying that time passes differently isn’t enough *right now* when the place where time goes by faster is also the place that’s been set up to have people never age.
If it were a different world involved and a character said they were there for a few days and everybody else said 1 day then I’d be ok with it and accept that the person grew up faster because they were in the world where time goes by quicker. I just have an issue with it because of it being Neverland. *right now*
If Henry is special because of this that and the other and can age I’ll be fine with it as long as it makes sense, but I’m not sure how they can do that just yet and not have it just seem like an easy cover-up for the actor aging, though they may have to as he does seem to have grown a lot over the summer so we shall see.
I agree that Dylan probably grew before they started filming a lot of his stuff so he should be alright, but we know that even if it’s not obvious with him, they still can’t make that exception because otherwise Neal wouldn’t be around today so it’s more a suspension of disbelief than anything. If they address one, it’s hard not to address the other when the same problem is in play, but it could happen I suppose.
I’m open to whatever we haven’t seen yet because it usually does have a good explanation (and twists and turns we never even guessed!), I’m just saying right now I’m having trouble making that leap with how the world has been presented so far. If they made a time jump in SB and said he was a few months older that’s one thing – going to a land where nobody ages and then making him age/be super special to where he defies the natural laws of that land I’m going to need to see on screen with a good explanation is all.
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