catherine88
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I officially can't wait to watch the new season.
Small digression: We don't know how old Regina is here. But if she's, say, 18 at the youngest, that means Rumpelstiltskin has been the Dark One for at least that long. Snow White is eight years old, meaning that it'll be at least ten (and probably more) years before she marries Charming and the Dark Curse falls. While we're not sure when exactly Baelfire got sucked into a Land Without Magic, he didn't look too much older than 14 when he disappeared -- so it must have been fairly early in Rump's reign as the Dark One.
So by the time the curse went into effect, Baelfire had already been missing for at least 28 years. And that's not even counting Gepetto's lifespan; the wood carver has got to be at least 10 when his parents get turned into puppets and at least 60 when he and everyone else get sent to Storybrooke. Last week's episode established that time moves at the same rate in both Storybrooke and Fairy Land; 28 years passed in both places when the curse was in full flower. All of this added together means that Baelfire must be around 92 years old (14 + 50 + 28) if he was, in fact, transported to our "real world" back when he threw down that fated magic bean. Oh, unless his portal spanned both time and space. In that case, all these calculations are moot. But hey, ain't speculation fun?