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ONCE UPON A TIME has been off our televisions for all of 2014 so far — part of ABC’s plan to split seasons and cut back on reruns — but season 3.5 kicks off this Sunday with a strong return hour that explains a bit of what went down in the year that we missed, while simultaneously setting up the journey for the second half of the season.
So what can you expect in the second half of the season? ONCE UPON A TIME showrunners Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis dished…
We will be learning more about Oz and the Wicked Witch, but don’t look towards the Neverland arc as a guide for how it will go down:
“It’s very different in its conception,” Horowitz told reporters last month. “The Wicked Witch is a big part of the second half, and a driving force as an antagonist, but the world of Oz — it’s a place we will see, and we’ll spend a little bit of time there, but it’s not a ‘everybody gets on a ship and goes there and then we’re there’ kind of thing.”
“We’re going to get Zelena’s — the Wicked Witch — origin story,” Kitsis added.
But that won’t be the only person who we get more of an origin story on: “We are going to get a Cora [as played by] Rose McGowan backstory at some point,” Kitsis said.
“We’re going to see some of the Snow White family, the early years,” Horowitz explained. “And we’ll see a little bit of King Leopold when he was younger, and how there were some interactions between him and the other characters that you may or may not have expect.”
“The fun of these stories is now we’ve had two-and-a-half years, so you have a taste of all of these characters, and what we can do is dig a little deeper,” Kitsis added. “And we’re going to understand a little more about King Leopold when he was a prince, and his side of the family, and Snow’s side of the family, a little more.”
And, “I think we can also say we will learn little more about Snow’s mother,” Horowitz added.
Glinda, the Good Witch:
What fun is meeting Wicked without meeting her good counterpart, Glinda?
“We will meet [Glinda] in this half of the season,” Horowitz said. “I would say in the latter half of this run of episodes…we cast Sunny Mabrey as Glinda, and we’re very excited to have her in our world.”
“She’s still Glinda the Good Witch, in the sense that she’s positive, and she has a lot of spirit to her,” Kitsis acknowledged. “But the mythology of the four witches, we kind of created our own….You might see some iconic friends from Oz. Their relationship is going to be explored in a couple of episodes.”
“And unlike the Glinda of the movie who appears in a bubble and is pure goodness, our Glinda is pure goodness, but she’s a character, I think you’ll see, has gone through a lot,” Horowitz added. “A lot of the big touchstones from Baum’s books are hit [on in ONCE UPON A TIME], and we try and do our own spin on it. And I think, hopefully, for us, there are some fun surprises and some interesting takes on that world.”
True love for Regina?
ONCE viewers know that Robin Hood is, potentially, destined to be Regina’s true love, but the two have yet to really have significant interactions…as of yet.
“[We’re] going to see them meet very shortly,” Horowitz teased. “Whether true love happens, or works out, or not, it’s at least going to hopefully be a very interesting road they travel together.”
“But she will see that tattoo [that she knows belongs to the man who could bring her the best shot at happiness],” Kitsis previewed. “And it will definitely have an effect on her.”
A new pirate in town?
In the year that passed between Emma’s goodbye to her family and friends and Hook showing up at her doorstep, Hook will have made the acquaintance of a new pirate, Blackbeard (played by former V star Charles Mesure)…but the two aren’t exactly buddies.
“I can say that [Blackbeard] does not shower very much,” Kitsis joked. “He is a pirate, through and through. And he can Captain Hook do not have a lot of love for each other. The only thing two pirates would fight over — even more than a woman — would be a ship.”
Will Neal become his father?
With Neal losing both the woman he loves and their son — in order to keep them safe — he’s handling things “not well,” Kitsis conceded.
“In a lot of ways, he finds himself in a similar position his father did, which is: I’m stuck in a land, and I need to get back to the people I love,” Kitsis explained. “The question is, will he follow the same path? Rumple was willing to curse everybody to get what he wanted, and Neal, has up until this point, been a really moral center for his dad. We’ll see what path he goes down.”
Belle starts to come into her own:
Belle has been on the outskirts of much of the story — one of the downsides of being one of the few regular characters left behind in Storybrooke as the rest traveled to Neverland — but she’ll have a lot to do in the second half of the season.
“I think it is safe to say there is a significant story that is being launched by [Belle and Neal]‘s scenes in the first episode [back],” Horowitz previewed. “And on the flip side, [where she is in the present] will reflect what you’re going to see us explore in the past. And we’re going to be seeing more Belle iconography in the form of Lumière, the candle, who will be showing up soon.”
“The other thing about Belle that’s interesting is what we loved about the character was she was a bookworm, who wanted to actually experience adventure,” Kitsis added. “And I think this year, we’re going to start to see her come into her own by using her brain. She’s going to be a hero that will reach for a book or use her intelligence more than a sword.”
“And that’s the thing we love about Belle: she’s smart, she can take care of herself, and she’s resourceful,” Horowitz finished. “And all of those qualities come into play as the story unfolds.”
ONCE UPON A TIME: Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis Tease Season 3.5
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"A lot of this is the the exact same as other press releases. It was a giant press conference with A and E and they’ve slowly trickled it out. Nothing really new.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"In the year that passed between Emma’s goodbye to her family and friends and Hook showing up at her doorstep, Hook will have made the acquaintance of a new pirate, Blackbeard (played by former V star Charles Mesure)…but the two aren’t exactly buddies.
That confirms that Blackbeard is a pirate whom Hook meets during the lost year rather than prior or during the first curse.
“I think it is safe to say there is a significant story that is being launched by [Belle and Neal]‘s scenes in the first episode [back],” Horowitz previewed. “And on the flip side, [where she is in the present] will reflect what you’re going to see us explore in the past. And we’re going to be seeing more Belle iconography in the form of Lumière, the candle, who will be showing up soon.”
Belle fans again should be very happy to hear this. I know I am! 🙂
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
That confirms that Blackbeard is a pirate whom Hook meets during the lost year rather than prior or during the first curse.
It does seem to confirm that, but I’m wondering if that was stated as fact, or is just speculation from a reporter who didn’t even entertain the thought that he might be in a way back flashback instead? The actual quote from Eddy didn’t clarify the t-word.
“And we’ll see a little bit of King Leopold when he was younger, and how there were some interactions between him and the other characters that you may or may not have expect.”
We know he’s gonna be interacting with Cora, but “characters“? Guess he probably had a Rumple run in too, because everyone gets one of those, but that wouldn’t classify as “you may or may not have expected”. Maybe Blue helped steer him towards Eva? Or vice versa? Maybe that’s how Blue and Eva met?
“But she will see that tattoo [that she knows belongs to the man who could bring her the best shot at happiness],” Kitsis previewed. “And it will definitely have an effect on her.”
Well crap. Guess I can deal with her seeing it if it happens in FTL but they don’t get together until SB, by which point she’s forgotten about his tatt.
“And I think this year, we’re going to start to see her come into her own by using her brain. She’s going to be a hero that will reach for a book or use her intelligence more than a sword.”
Their use of “brain” made me think Scarecrow. Not that I expect her to be the Scarecrow, but she could be a present day parallel to the Scarecrow. Anyway, it does sound like Belle’s gonna kick some arse in S3B, which will be great to see.
Even if it’s basically the same stuff, I STILL love reading about Belle being a hero, about brains and intelligence being weapons ( a VERY VERY good lesson for kids to learn) and about her adventure with Neal.
The one thing I HADN’T heard was the part about where Belle is in the present relating to where she is in the past (saving her man, lol)
Yay for Belle being resourceful……I love that quality of hers – and she can take care of herself. I think she’s going to be the rock Neal leans on, though she could use strong shoulder at times as well.
I guess 318 is Cora, but I don’t really understand why we need a backstory on her, unless it’s to understand Regina?
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