I personally believe the actors hired for this season that are key characters still have a lot of life and story left in them, our writers too. Why create a show and give it such a storyline to end it after one season?
No. There is at least one more season if not two they can easily pull out. One thing I loved about this last episode was the number of characters that appeared, and I think we will see more of that at the end of this season — Regina, Rumpel/Mr. Gold, Emma, David/PCharming, MM/SW, David, August, Archie/Jiminy, Red, The Dwarves… I was trying to think who we didn’t see in this episode — the children from True North, Belle, Sydney, Dr. Whale. I think there are battles to be fought before the war is won/ or the Curse is broken:)
One battle is memory or remembering for the individuals involved; another is Emma following the proper legal form while trying to uncover the truth, and if she doesn’t what does that mean? Can Regina get her kicked out of Storybrooke, or imprison her like Belle? Regina has yet to confirm who Emma is, Emma has yet to believe the stories are true, David and MM have yet to remember who they are, and if they remember they could be committed to some asylum for their looney beliefs.
If the writers stick to their LOST roots and form (and I personally think it would be kind of cool this season) then I agree the opening scene in the pilot will be the ending scene in the finale. Maybe David and MM will remember who they are. If they do there will be a lot of issues with Emma next season since she is not quite the believer they could be – I mean what do you say to parents who say they put you in a magical tree in FTL so she would have her best chance ending up next to a freeway. Also, maybe remembering will put David back in a coma, maybe he won’t be able to handle it, who knows, he was unconcious when the curse was enacted; there are so many places these writers could take us. And if they stay true to LOST form someone will die in the finale that none of us will probably be happy about by the end — I’m thinking Archie or Ruby or Granny, some character we all like but isn’t particularly necessary for upcoming seasons (or can’t renew their contract). Maybe Ruby will save them all from something at the cost of her life.
There are spoilers already posted as to a few characters we know will show up in the finale as well as the title. There is also a very interesting theory by the writer Phee in the forum – Rumplestiltskin’s Agenda that poses the theory that Rumpel/ Mr. Gold is trying to get rid of all magic.
No, these writers are too seasoned to give us everything we want this season, they will just give us a taste to whet the appetite for next season, and why not, there are still so many fairytales they could incorporate – Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, Robinhood, Little Mermaid, those are just a few people have mentioned in the podcast and on the forums. It doesn’t take too much for them to create a “gamechanger” in the storyline, just like they did with August. The question for me really becomes how many seasons can they carry this out without losing the great writing and storyline, and I would love it if they could carry it out and have it all tie up into a neat little bow at the end with 85-90 percent of the questions answered in the end. Although I accepted the writers ending for LOST I never felt completely satisfied because there were too many questions they left unanswered. I hope they don’t do that here.