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Am I the only one who felt the timeline was a bit skewampus?

posted 9 years ago by MarblesLove
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I just mean it seems like they were in the little town for too long for her to not know if Walter or Charlie was the babies father. I mean it took them two weeks just to get there and then they spent a while with Kitty doing nothing and then working with the orphanage and Walter figuring out a bunch of crap and building that water thing and them fixing their relationship. Was that really only supposed to take place over a month or two?

Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end.

[–] crgilbert7 8 years ago

I agree. I just watched it and it felt like at least 6 months or more had passed. Then she said it had only been 2 months... I was very surprised.

[–] mvl1994 8 years ago

I agree. The film made it seem as though more than 2 months had passed. Not to mention, one would think morning sickness would have affected her before 2 months had passed. With my pregnancies, 4 weeks in and I was struggling to keep it together.

[–] MarblesLove 8 years ago

Right? Not only that but you'd think she would have noticed that she hadn't had a period in a couple of months.

Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end.

[–] bkzsmith 8 years ago

I didn't have a problem with the timeline but with Diana Rigg's lame assurance that her fellow nun "comes from a large family and has experience with these matters" in diagnosing the pregnancy: "There is no doubt about it".

[–] MarblesLove 8 years ago

Yeah. There are better ways to figure that out. I just assume the writers didn't want to go into the more clinical stuff, like figuring out if she'd had a period recently, because it wouldn't be as interesting or as good of a story or they thought it would be awkward or something.

Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end.

[–] dgz78 8 years ago

When she told him she was pregnant I thought 'well obviously it's Walter's since I figured it was six months since they had arrived in the town.'