I have my own theory about the missing hugs but I’m not exactly thrilled about it so not all that sure I want to say it but here it goes.
I know that Adam has increasingly become frustrated over the past several months with people sending nasty tweets to him and the cast, shipping wars, fans sending hate mail threatening to stop watching the show if their ship doesn’t end up together, spoiler pics leaking on-line, etc. I think the Rumple/Pan pics leaking really ticked them off because it pretty much gave away their whole enormous 3A reveal. I think they pride themselves on the twists and turns this show takes and being able to shock and surprise the audience. And while they LOVE the super uber loyal extreme fans like use, I really think they are getting tired of having to keep up so hard with all the rumors, spoilers, hate, and damage control.
Remember when some irate fan tweeted Adam about the CS hug way back when and he replied “That’s really NOT what you think.” Well, no one listened to him, did they? If that was JMo and Colin doing something in the moment that felt right, or they had them try something that wasn’t scripted but in the ended didn’t work cause well . . . it wasn’t scripted – it would make sense that it didn’t make it in and Adam’s tweet makes complete sense.
Along the same lines (and this is the part I don’t like posting) they know the media and fans are happily snapping away when they film. What if they have decided to just allow all these pictures to end up out there and let them be. Kind of like “You want spoilers? Fine, have spoilers. You want to know what happens in advance. Fine figure out what happens in advance.” Because, really, they don’t OWE us spoilers. They don’t OWE us an explanation for every picture we see. They don’t have to explain to us which spoiler pictures they may or may not be using, which are authentic, which are BTS, etc. So I guess I’m not saying that A and are are lying about anything but I think they may be attempting to let people realize what can happen when they get too exuberant about spoilers and media/fan pictures. Kind of like a very strong message: have all the fun you want in your quest for spoilers, pictures, etc. but please believe us now – if you don’t hear it directly from us – do NOT believe it is happening, even if you see it. I am guessing that goes for all those actor and media interviews as well. They have said before that things get twisted around or misquoted, Adam just said they were still tweaking things AFTER they did the pre-screening for the media, the actors film things and they don’t necessarily know what is going to make it into the final version and what isn’t. I thought it was interesting that in the Wicked Special Ginny said that until the episode was filmed neither she nor Lana understood WHY the Evil Queen hated Snow so much so they watched the episode and cried together and then it affected how they acted together from then on out. So even the actors don’t always know MAJOR things in advance so they don’t always know when it might not be appropriate to go with the way something might feel right in the moment when they are filming something.
Know idea if I am right or completely off base here but just some thoughts I had last night.