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EW can reveal that there were very early plans to do a vignette-style episode that would have provided an update, or even some closure, on secondary characters whose stories haven’t been touched upon in a while.
Rumor has it, the idea was to open on Henry (Jared Gilmore) and a storybook as he recounted tales about…..
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[adrotate group="5"]“It ultimately comes down to: Where do you want to spend your time?” Horowitz says. “There’s so much we want to explore with our core characters. While we would love to tell you what’s going on with Kathryn [Anastasia Griffith] or the Red Queen, if we can find ways to slip in bits of it, or to tell you what’s going on with Lily, we’ll do it, but to give over a whole episode to it — as much as we love the idea on a conceptual level — it’s such precious real estate. Not that we don’t love the minor characters, but we have to honor our main cast.”
Maybe they shouldn’t have opened up these loose ends without committing to tackling them down the line in the first place? If Season 7 does happen, I really hope they finally get around to this. Especially since the main cast will be truncated anyway.
Maybe they shouldn’t have opened up these loose ends without committing to tackling them down the line in the first place?
THIS. I mean, really writers. Don’t keep putting threads into your story and thinking you can come back to them later!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"We mulled it, and we hope someday we get to it,” executive producer Edward Kitsis tells EW.
This is the problem with the OUAT writers in a nutshell. They mull, they plant, and then they get distracted by shiny shiny PLOT PLOT.
(this article angered me more than it needed to)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Well that’s very disappointing. It would have fit so well in the supposed theme at the beginning of the season of telling “Untold Stories.” They could have easily replaced an episode like “I’ll be Your Mirror” without losing out on important storyline.
They could also just have a scene where the characters TELL us what’s happening with the secondary ones eg
Snow: I saw Kathryn at Neal’s nursery today, her little boy looks just like Frederick.
Right there, the audience has been informed that 1. Kathryn is alive and well, and 2. She and Frederick have had a son together.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixThey could also just have a scene where the characters TELL us what’s happening with the secondary ones eg
Snow: I saw Kathryn at Neal’s nursery today, her little boy looks just like Frederick.
Right there, the audience has been informed that 1. Kathryn is alive and well, and 2. She and Frederick have had a son together.
For characters like Kathryn, sure telling is enough. But for characters like Mal, Lily, Lily’s father, Will and Anastasia, who they deliberately set up subplots for, I want to actually see it. The vignette episode would have been/would be perfect for that.
I feel like either A and E are really out of touch with their fans, or those of us on the forum are in the minority of what we want to see. I can think of several episodes and characters I would have sacrificed for this vignette episode. It would have been a better use of “real estate” as Adam put it. And why even tell us this was considered? “We were going to give you answers for characters that you’ve been waiting years to get, but PSYCH! Never mind.
And why even tell us this was considered? “We were going to give you answers for characters that you’ve been waiting years to get, but PSYCH! Never mind.
Yeah seriously, what even is this article? Because there are two options here
1) Leave the audience to think that you forgot about the stories of several big plot points (Wil, Ana, Lily/Lily’s father)
2) Let the audience know that you remember all this, thought about it, and then decided to scrap the idea of answering the questions cause shiny shiny plot plot.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"This is the problem with the OUAT writers in a nutshell. They mull, they plant, and then they get distracted by shiny shiny PLOT PLOT.
(this article angered me more than it needed to)
Especially when they say the reasoning came down to “There’s so much we want to explore with our core characters”, even though they keep using a reset button on them. Do we need Rumple to continue flip flopping between good and evil? Do we need Emma to keep putting her walls up? Do we need Regina and Zelena to continue their sibling bickering? Do we need more of Hook having some random dark secret that suddenly comes to the surface? Do we need more flashbacks of Evil Queen trying to kill Snow? If they stopped needlessly recycling all of this, then maybe they’d actually have the time to cover those dropped storylines!
This is the problem with the OUAT writers in a nutshell. They mull, they plant, and then they get distracted by shiny shiny PLOT PLOT. (this article angered me more than it needed to)
Especially when they say the reasoning came down to “There’s so much we want to explore with our core characters”, even though they keep using a reset button on them. Do we need Rumple to continue flip flopping between good and evil? Do we need Emma to keep putting her walls up? Do we need Regina and Zelena to continue their sibling bickering? Do we need more of Hook having some random dark secret that suddenly comes to the surface? Do we need more flashbacks of Evil Queen trying to kill Snow? If they stopped needlessly recycling all of this, then maybe they’d actually have the time to cover those dropped storylines!
all of this.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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