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Okay, this post is going to be a bit of a weird idea, but I’m curious to ask and debate, could ONCE work NOW not in the beginning but NOW as a Episodic series with slice of life concepts mixed with fantastical elements? It’s just a weird thought that popped into my head when I was doing my regular dose of thinking about stuff.
Let the debate begin! 🙂
[adrotate group="5"]slice of life concepts mixed with fantastical elements?
hmmm. Just not make sure I understand, elaborate on this. What do u mean by slice of life?
"I could have the giant duck as my steed!" --Daniel Radcliffe
Keeper Of Tamara's Taser , Jafar's Staff, Kitsis’s Glasses , Ariel’s Tail, Dopey's Hat , Peter Pan’s Shadow, Outfit, & Pied Cloak,Red Queen's Castle, White Rabbit's Power To World Hop, Zelena's BroomStick, & ALL MAGICBack in S1, I think Once had a great opportunity to continue as a series…back when the curse was still active. Some people predicted it’d be broken, others didn’t, but when the curse broke….it seems all of S1 just went poof! I haven’t even heard anyone call Snow White Mary Margret since S2 I think….but that’s to be expected. The curse broke which led us into S2….that whole thing was just….okay.
S3 is where the issue began! Why would you split up these two arcs? You have a Neverland and Oz arc….those should be two separate seasons which they could’ve stretched out, and answered a lot of questions that we still don’t know about those stories.
My personal opinion….3A should have been all Neverland! Then 3B should have been Storybrooke with NL flashbacks, had we had that….all of our questions would have been answered. How did Tinkerbelle end up in NL? Hook vs Pan scene we could’ve seen. How did Tink and Peter meet? Baelfire Lost Boy Days? We might even have saw Davey Jones, but now we’ll never know because they wanted to rush all of NL into eleven episodes which wasn’t enough to flesh out the story.
Same thing with Oz, the Oz Arc should have been our S4! The season premier would of course been New York Serenade, and we’d gone from there. The only difference is…Adam and Eddy would have had all summer to think over a few things concerning the Oz Arc. We never met the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion, no Walsh backstory of how he got to Oz, no Glinda backstory, no Wicked Witch of the East backstory, and DEFINETLY more Zelena backstory!
They would have been able to take their time with Zelena, and give her a true proper backstory! I had half a mind that Zelena fell in love with the Woodcutter who the Wicked Witch of the East killed by taking his heart, thus turning him into the Tin Man, who by the time found Zelena, she’d already been wicked. Yes, I know it sounds similar to Stable Queen story, but that would’ve been the highlight because that’s when Regina and Zelena could have really started to understand one another on a whole new, easier level. And even if they hadn’t gone with that head cannon, and went with what they gave us….I doubt if they had a whole season for Zelena…it’d make a lot more sense because they’d have a lot of room left to move around with.
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Okay, this post is going to be a bit of a weird idea, but I’m curious to ask and debate, could ONCE work NOW not in the beginning but NOW as a Episodic series with slice of life concepts mixed with fantastical elements? It’s just a weird thought that popped into my head when I was doing my regular dose of thinking about stuff. Let the debate begin!
By episodic, I assume you mean that every episode has a clear beginning, middle, and an end that doesn’t connect to previous episodes and doesn’t necessarily carry forward next week? Like, for instance, procedural crime drama (CSI, NCIS?)
The answer is yes it could but they would have to alter the concept of the show. Instead of introducing new villains, new myths, new lands every season with the intention that by season (or mid season) end, the villain is defeated, a lesson is learned, and we move on to the next villain-of-the-arc, ONCE would have to keep the storyline to the absolute core–Snow, Emma, Charming, Rumple, Regina, Belle, Hook, and Henry–and not bring in wide sweeping villains like they do and instead focus on the interactions of the core and with the occasional side character, like Ruby, the dwarves, Granny, ect.
In other words, it could work, but it cannot work as the show stands now. It actually worked this way in S1, a bit, thought not as extensively as it does in other episodic TV. There was no clear villain (Regina was trying to get rid of Emma but she wasn’t set up to be the end all be all villain at the end of the season who is defeated. Rumple also played a part in the villainy of S1, but again with no agenda directed against a specific person). We stuck with the EF for the most part–side trip to WL. And overall, the episodes focused on character interaction–Ruby and Emma, Emma and Snow, Regina and Mary Margaret, Regina and Emma, Emma and Henry–and developing bonds or antagonistic feelings.
S2 is what changed that when they decided there would be an actual set villain–Cora for the most part, followed by The Home Office plot. It has since continued, each half becoming more “this land and this villain for this many episodes.” In the process, we’ve lost (more than a bit) of the character interaction between core.
Eddy made a joke once that they’d love to give Emma a day off to go shopping but that’s now their story works. THAT would be episodic but each episode needs to fit into their mythos of the season, so while it could work, they’d have to alter their understanding of storytelling.
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