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“Every year’s a new show for Once Upon a Time,” co-creator Edward Kitsis told The Hollywood Reporter. “One year we were in Camelot, one year we were in the Underworld, one we were in Neverland, once we were in New York. So, every year we’re kind of recreating a new show.”
Um no. Location = / = new show. Your show–meaning character motivations, themes, motifs, symbols, and mythology–should be pretty consistent even in the face of a new location. That’s called writing.
PREACH! Guess that explains why characters became so unrecognisable as themselves, the writers really were just focused on location and plot, rather than being interested in creating a believable, consistent world.
I just don’t know if there are seven non-movie witches to be had?
The article says…
The end of the episode revealed that while Drizella thought it was her plan to curse everyone, Mother Gothel had been pulling the strings the whole time thanks to her “Coven of the Eight,” a group of eight witches that Horowitz and Kitsis said we’ll meet in the second half of the season. (Regina and Zelena, of course, are two members.)
They don’t have that last bit in quotes though, so is that actually something that A&E did confirm in the interview, or is it just something the writer of the article assumed and stuck in there? There were 5 hooded witches standing behind Gothel when she came to get the statue of Drizella, that’s 7 of them in total that were standing there. That only leaves one vacancy, there’s not space for both Regina and Zelena.
and how do you tell somebody that you were once the wicked witch?
And that you only have a daughter because you raped your sister’s true love. Whoever Kelly’s fiancee is, I feel bad for the poor guy.
It’s always a balance between your plans and the realities of how production works. We have a lot of new locations and we’re in the city, so there’s a lot of figuring out what kinds of stories we could tell versus what our plans were. That’s always a balancing act.”
Guys, this isn’t the first time you’ve had to deal with production schedules for a show. You’ve even shot episodes of this very show in the big bad city before. “How production works” is not an acceptable excuse for a hot mess when it comes to storytelling in the 7th season of your show!!!! OMG! *bashes head repeatedly into desk*