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Okay, this has been bothering me for a while now and if it’s something I missed or misunderstood, please send me back on the right track.
It was my understanding That for the last 28 years, Storybrook has been frozen in time because of the curse. Snow White gave birth to Emma, Emma was put in a magical tree then BAM! Everyone is in this town in Maine stuck in time without happy endings, Excepts for Emma Swan and August who are freely roaming the earth and aging normally. 18 years after the curse happened, Emma gives birth to an adorable baby boy that she puts up for adoption. Regina gets the adorable baby boy, names him Henry (after her father) and the kid… start to age??? and grow up normally???? but… I thought time was frozen? No one else aged (Mary Margaret certainly didn’t age, nor did David or any other fully formed adult character). Now I would be willing to accept that the whole frozen in time thing doesn’t apply to henry because he was brought from the outside in, but does this mean that every year at school MM gets the same group of kids? (if they don’t age they can’t go up a class can they?) and Henry is the only one getting older?
Or is it something else like, everyone gets to age up until puberty strikes! Or up until puberty is over? if that is the case the population of 18 years old in this town must be overwhelming.
Does anyone understand what I mean?… anyone?
The tiny scientific that lives inside me, could not help but try to come up with a logical and mathematical answer to my own questions.
my hypothesis is:
In our world
When you were a child, time seemed to go by extremely slowly. waiting for 1 hour seemed to be the end of the world, now as an adult/young adult/teen 1 hour seems to be nothing. that is because “time is relative”(TIR).
Lets not get to involved with the specific numbers here, but in this case, I would like to use “TIR” it it’s simplest, most approachable form which is, “The older you get, The faster time seems to go by”. It is normal after all, when you are 10 years old, 1 year, is 1/10 of you life. However, when you are 75 years old, 1 year is only 1/75 of your life, therefore diminishing the importance of 1 year. Let’s call this perceived time. (PT)
wether you are 10 or 75 years old, the amount of “real time” a year is, doesn’t change. A year is a year. They all (more or less) have the same amount of seconds in them. Lets call this real time. (RT)
Back to Storybrook
What if, in Storybrook, real time (RT) does not exist and only perceived time (PT) matter? By dropping RT out of the equation we can easily reverse the idea that:
“The older you get, the faster time seems to go by”
and transform it into
“The older you get, the SLOWER you WANT time to go by”.
by dropping RT of the equation we can transform a mathematical question into a philosophical one.
When you are a child, you want life to go faster, you want to be a grow up, you want to have more freedom, you want school to end to be able to go play with your friends. You want a lot of things from life when you are a child. The only way to make that happen is for time to go by.
When you are an adult, you do not want time to go faster. Because the faster time goes, the closer you are to death, responsibility and going back to work tomorrow…etc.
Maybe this idea of time in Storybrook would explain why children grow up and adult seem to be stuck in time. Because in the smallest of ways, WILL, has something to do with it.
Also, by mixing time with will, we leave the door wide open for PETER PAN…
Anyway thanks for bearing with me, let me know what you think. I would love to hear other people’s theory on the subject of “time” and “why children get to grow up”.
DISCLAIMER: I am very aware of how simplistically I used the concept of relativity. My knowledge and understanding of Einstein’s theory is also extremely superficial. Feel free to correct me, add to or completely destroy my theory.
[adrotate group="5"]I think time works in a way that they keep reliving the same year over and over so they would celebrate birthdays and christmas and would get the sense that time is actually moving when it’s not. Having Henry age would also give the appearence that time is moving. It’s only when Emma came to town that time began to permenantly move foreward.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixI think time was just frozen. No one aged except Henry, which is why Henry was so eager to accept the curse theory and why he has trouble making friends and has to go to therapy etc. No one noticed they weren’t aging because they were all affected by the curse except Henry. The thoughts of age or how people knew each or prior history didn’t occur to them because of the curse.
I think Henry was the only child who aged and Mary Margaret does get the same kids year after year, just no one remembers the previous year (like what PriceofMagic said). My evidence for this is that Hansel and Gretel did not age. Henry was not under the curse and that is why he did age. Everyone’s memories seem to be a little fuzzy in Storybrooke. Even though I disagree with it, that is a very interesting theory, Marilou.
Well, the reason Henry aged was because the curse had never touched him- the same way it never touched August and Emma. Henry was born after the curse was put into place, and because of that- because he wasn’t present when the curse was cast over the EF- he could age, just like any other person in the world.
So, yes, it much have been quite strange when he was 10 and all of his 5-year-old-friends… were still 5. 🙂@Marilou wrote:
does this mean that every year at school MM gets the same group of kids? (if they don’t age they can’t go up a class can they?) and Henry is the only one getting older?
Yep. Buggered if I remember where, but in some interview somewhere, I’m sure Adam and Eddy said that that is the case. Is it any wonder the kid was in therapy when he’s the only kid in town who ages, and no one else notices, except his mother, who would have probably tried to tell him he was imagining things if he asked her about it.
Clever suggestion by Marilou (although it doesn’t really relate to Relativity) but I have to agree with Clockwatcher and Phee; Henry aged because he was the only person in town who was not brought there by the curse. I see the curse as something that stopped the aging of everyone transported to Storybrooke by the curse.
In fact, I think Henry’s aging is essential to explaining his relationship with Regina. It was stated in an early episode that he only got the book from MM a month before he went to find Emma but he had been having problems with Regina for years. What would make him so willing to assume the only mother he ever knew was in fact the Evil Queen? I think it must have been years of frustration over the fact that Regina wouldn’t give him an explanation of why he was the only one in town who aged. That would also explain why he has no friends among the other kids.
But this raises another question. What the heck was Regina thinking when she adopted a baby? Didn’t she know that he would age and she would someday have to explain that to him? We’ve seen that Rumplestiltskin put things in the curse she didn’t expect, so she may not have expected him to age. On the other hand, did she really want to spend eternity changing diapers? Perhaps she was so desperate for someone to love that she just jumped into the adoption without thinking through the consequences, but she certainly had time to think about it in the years since. I prefer to think that she had some plan to patch things up with Henry but she was waiting for him to get a little older before enacting it. She couldn’t have foreseen that he would get the book from MM and that would give him an explanation for the odd behavior of time in Storybrooke before she could implement whatever plan she had in mind. Maybe we’ll learn more of what she had planned in Season Two.
I always wondered why Henry didn’t think it was normal that no one aged but him, because for him that is normal. Though i guess everyone still thought they aged and acted like things were happening that would if they aged like birthdays. Like people talked like they were aging even though they weren’t.
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