I never actually bothered to read this interview until now…
Oncers know that over the past few seasons, Snow and Charming’s story has been a bit sidelined. (Through no fault of their own, of course! Ginny Goodwin has just been a little preoccupied with her two real-life pregnancies.)
1) So what’s the excuse for Charming still being as dull as paint?
2) Because women who become pregnant are officially unable to do their jobs and, in this case, carry any sort of meaningful weight or impact in a narrative?
Once a child is involved, you actually have to put aside your own feelings and put the child first, no matter how much you hate the other person. And that is going to be tested.”
Whoa! Hate? Hmm… that seems a little strong, so Kitsis was quick to clarify his words. “I wouldn’t say she hates him,” he corrected himself. “I would say she’s severely disappointed and she seems very angry with him.”
Eh gad.
“When Emma has a problem, she reverts back to season one and those walls go up and she’s like, ‘I’ll figure it out myself.
Several of us have been saying this for years—Emma’s story is reset to zero every year and any development or growth is nixed so that the writers can go through the “Emma Swan” cycle again. I guess we should pat ourselves on the back for being right that this is in fact how they write her?
“There’s a lot of romance, and I think you’re going to see the first few episodes have a lot of that romance in them, but at the end of the day, the curse was broken between son and a mom. Family comes first on this show and that is important to us.
Yes but every season since that epic first one that did emphasize family over romance has become heavier and heavier with romantic love.