For what it’s worth even if both Ethan Embry and Sonequa Martin-Green were both available I doubt we’d see Greg and Tamara as A and E did everything in their narrative power to remove them from the story post haste once they realized that 99.5% of the audience really hated them and their story.
Yep. I still remember how you believed that they had to give us Tamara’s backstory to explain why she hated magic, and that never happened. There were so many crazy theories about Tamara in general back in the day. I still believe that Greg and Tamara really weren’t originally written with Neverland in mind, so the writers drastically changed their plans for them once Neverland got green-lit. Ethan Embry is on record for saying that when he first booked the role, Greg was only supposed to be in like 5 episodes, but that they ended up extending his appearance. Maybe Greg really was supposed to be just some total stranger, and perhaps he and Tamara weren’t even originally a couple? That would explain why Jane Espenson apparently gave off the impression that “Her” wasn’t someone significant, when she was on Barbara Barnett’s podcast.