204358 wrote:It’s been said in interviews and was alluded to in the S2 finale.
Rumble never said that he has he only said on the boat this is all he said: He never stated being there. Only Emma after her slip at the comic thing said that only Hook, and Regina have been to NL.
Mr. Gold: They’re merely pawns, manipulated by forces far greater than they can conceive. They have no idea who they’re truly working for.
Emma: And who’s that?
Mr. Gold: Someone we all should fear.
Yes it is possible Gold never went there, just knew reputation. But if J. Mo said that only Hook and Regina that would be wrong as Bae did go. What she might have meant is her character only knows Hook and Regina have been there since her character thinks Bae is dead and might not know of his past in NL. It could mean she was speaking as an actress knowing behind the scenes things her character does not know so she is telling us the whole list of people on the boat with previous NL visits as you interpret, but I don’t know that she was being so accurate. I think she got used to talking about Hook and Regina because she gets asked about them more than Rumpel and R starts both Regina and Rumpel. So I could see it being that all 3 villains had previous NL experience.
Maybe Rumpel sent Regina there as his apprentice?
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass