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On Once Upon a Time, viewers expect the unexpected, and in Season 3, things have been even more unpredictable with the addition of Neverland. The evil, yet charming, Peter Pan has led The Charmings & Co. into the depths of the island, causing Emma Swan to confront her past, present, and future as an abandoned child as she tries to find her son, Henry, and now a new frenemy is entering the picture: Tinker Bell.
As we’ve learned, the pint-sized fairy has a past with both Regina and Captain Hook, and one of their full back stories will be revealed in tonight’s episode (Season 3, Episode 3: “Quite the Common Fairy”), which was penned by consulting producer Jane Espenson.
We caught up with Jane at New York Comic-Con on October 12, where she teased a bit about the episode, including the future effects of Charming’s Dreamshade poisoning — and who it may affect next — and a shocking “big reveal” at the end of the episode that will “make you gasp.” Read on for our full chat, then catch the episode tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Wetpaint Entertainment: Your episode of Once Upon a Time is all about Tinker Bell. What else can we expect?
Jane Espenson: We get to introduce Tinker Bell to the show, which is great. It’s a good performance and it’s a good story and you learn something kind of shocking at the end of the episode. There’s a big reveal at the end of the episode. The final frame will make you gasp.
Tink is very feisty, but she also seems a little more level-headed. In a sneak peek, we see she wants to help Regina find love. Is she as genuine as she seems?
Tinker Bell is a very genuine character. She is not pretending for anybody. She says what she means and she gets stuff done. I think she’s a great character, and she’s really fun to write for.
How is she different from the animated version of Peter Pan and her own movies?
She has elements in common with the traditional Tinker Bell. She is always a strong and headstrong character who is breaking rules, and our Tinker Bell is that is well. But the specifics are very unique, very different, and very much our show.
We’ll see her come into Neverland, which seems to shock Regina. Same with Hook, who also has a past with Tinker Bell. How complicated are their relationships?
The whole episode is about the past relationship of Tink and Regina, so you’ll see why Regina and Tink react to each other in the present day, in Neverland, when you see what their past was in Fairytale Land. As to Hook’s backstory with Tink? That remains to be told.
In this episode?
No, no — that remains to be told past the episode. You may not find out too much about Hook and Tink for a while.
We’ve heard that Regina’s love story may happen in Neverland. And it’s not Tinker Bell…
It could be!
Lana Parrilla [Regina] hinted that it could be someone we’ve already met. In this episode, will we see a glimpse of that yet?
Yes! [Pauses] Well, you’ll see — let me phrase it differently. You will see an opportunity that Regina has had for love. Whether or not that’s in the future or not, I can’t speak to that, but watch the episode and watch all the way to the end.
Tinker Bell of course has her other fairy friends and foes. I know we see Blue in this episode, and Lee Arenberg [Grumpy] shared a photo with Amy Acker. Was that from this episode?
That may have been extra content that we did for Good Morning, Storybrooke for the bonus content that Lee and Amy were in, so that may have been from that.
So, there won’t be a fairy pow-wow. Will we see her again?
We would love to see Amy again! Amy is full-time on another show, Person of Interest, but she came to do an arc on one of Husbands most recent seasons. I consider her a great friend and one of the best actresses out there. Dramatic, comedic, she can do everything.
We have Charming who is poisoned with some nasty Dreamshade. Josh Dallas spoke a bit to how it will change him and affect his relationships with everyone. Can you tease his status in this episode?
It’s a nasty poison and you’re going to see that poison again. You’re going to see it a couple times. You saw it in the past, and you’re going to see other characters who have an influence in their life.
We saw some classic Bandit Snow in last week’s episode. Will she be back?
I feel like Snow has always got Bandit Snow in her. I like to use the word “Bandit Snow” just to mean when Snow gets assertive. I love when Snow is tough, and it’s always inside her, even when she’s Mary Margaret, I feel like inside her somewhere, there’s Bandit Snow.
What do you want to see from Tinker Bell in tonight’s episode? Sound off below, and catch Jane’e episode of Once Upon a Time at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
http://www.wetpaint.com/once-upon-a-time/articles/2013-10-12-season-3-spoilers-jane-espenson
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"There’s a big reveal at the end of the episode. The final frame will make you gasp.
Double agent alert
No, no — that remains to be told past the episode. You may not find out too much about Hook and Tink for a while.
Hmmm. 305?
Well, you’ll see — let me phrase it differently. You will see an opportunity that Regina has had for love. Whether or not that’s in the future or not, I can’t speak to that, but watch the episode and watch all the way to the end.
We know it’s RH, Jane. You can go ahead and say it.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I need to see that final frame right now! *GRABBY HANDS* When I download this ep, it’s gonna take all my willpower to not just have a sneaky peek at the end first. 😛
You will see an opportunity that Regina has had for love. Whether or not that’s in the future or not, I can’t speak to that, but watch the episode and watch all the way to the end.
This to me suggests that maybe Tink tried to set up Regina and whoever *cough*Robin*cough* back in the day, but someone else *cough*Rumple*cough* *coughOrMaybeBlue?*cough* intervened and they didn’t end up crossing paths after all. Perhaps?
This to me suggests that maybe Tink tried to set up Regina and whoever *cough*Robin*cough* back in the day, but someone else *cough*Rumple*cough* *coughOrMaybeBlue?*cough* intervened and they didn’t end up crossing paths after all. Perhaps?
I’m thinking the same thing. My instincts go toward Blue since we know she’s in this episode and they’ve teased out a history between the two. Sneaky Fairy is Always Sneaky.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"What if it was Regina that balked? If she’s growing to realize the power she can conceivably have as queen, being presented with someone like Robin Hood (a humble thief) as a match might make her hesitate. She wants love, but she had it before and it was taken away like that. *snaps fingers* Now, power … you can do more with power. And it’s harder to take it away.
If something happens to make her realize her potential power as queen in this episode as well, I could see her choosing that rather than abandoning it for love … love that, as Regina knows, can be a very fragile thing. Maybe this is a step toward the power/love struggle we see in Regina to this day.
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan ThomasMaybe Marian intervened and told Regina to back off of RH because he was her one true love.
According to the press release, Marian isn’t in 303. I think this is going to come down to a case of magic interference or Regina bolting, like TheOnionGirl suggested (which was a very good idea given that in the sneak we saw at NYCC Rumple talks about how Regina likes the taste of darkness).
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Maybe Marian intervened and told Regina to back off of RH because he was her one true love.
The scenario I’m imagining would have happened pre-Marian.
Historically speaking, Maid Marian is characterised in several different ways…
Maid Marian was originally a character in May Games festivities (held during May and early June, most commonly around Whitsun)[2] and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of May of May Day. Jim Lees in The Quest for Robin Hood (p.81) suggests that Maid Marian was originally a personification of the Virgin Mary. Both a “Robin” and a “Marian” character were associated with May Day by, but these figures were apparently part of separate traditions; the Marian of the May Games is likely derived from the French tradition of a shepherdess named Marion and her shepherd lover Robin, recorded in Adam de la Halle’s Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, circa 1283.[3] It isn’t clear if there was an association of the early “outlaw” character of Robin Hood and the early “May Day” character Robin, but they did become identified, and associated with the “Marian” character, by the 16th century. Alexander Barclay, writing in c. 1500, refers to “some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood”.[4] Marian remained associated with May Day celebrations even after the association of Robin Hood with May Day had again faded.[5] The early Robin Hood is also given a “shepherdess” love interest, in Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage (Child Ballad 149), his sweetheart is “Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses”.[6] Clorinda survives in some later stories as an alias of Marian.[7]
The “gentrified” Robin Hood character, portrayed as a historical outlawed yeoman emerges in the late 16th century. From this time, Maid Marian is also cast in terms of a noblewoman, even though her role was never entirely virginal and she retained aspects of her “shepherdess” or “May Day” characteristics; in 1592, Thomas Nashe described the Marian of the later May Games as being played by a male actor named Martin, and there are hints in the play of Robin Hood and the Friar that the female character in these plays had become a lewd parody. Robin was originally called Ryder.
In an Elizabethan play, Anthony Munday identified Maid Marian with the historical Matilda, daughter of Robert Fitzwalter, who had to flee England because of an attempt to assassinate King John (legendarily attributed to King John’s attempts to seduce Matilda).[8][9]
In Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Child Ballad 150, perhaps dating to the 17th century), Maid Marian is “a bonny fine maid of a noble degree” said to excel both Helen and Jane Shore in beauty. Separated from her lover, she dresses as a page “and ranged the wood to find Robin Hood,” who was himself disguised, so that the two begin to fight when they meet. As is often the case in these ballads, Robin Hood loses the fight to comical effect, and Marian only recognizes him when he asks for quarter. This ballad is in the “Earl of Huntington” tradition, a supposed “historical identity” of Robin Hood forwarded in the late 16th century. [10]
20th-century pop culture adaptations of the Robin Hood legend have almost invariably featured a Maid Marian, and have mostly made her a highborn woman with a rebellious or “tomboy” character. In 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, she is a courageous and loyal woman (played by Olivia de Havilland), and a ward of the court, an orphaned noblewoman under the protection of King Richard. Although always ladylike, her initial antagonism to Robin springs not from aristocratic disdain but out of an aversion to robbery.[11] In The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), she, despite being a lady-in-waiting to Eleanor of Aquitaine during the Crusades, is in reality a mischievous tomboy capable of fleeing boldly to the countryside disguised as a boy.[12] In the Kevin Costner epic Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, she is a maternal cousin to the sovereign, while in the BBC TV Show adaption of 2006, she is the daughter of the former Sheriff and was betrothed to Robin prior to his leaving for the Holy Land.
Maid Marian’s role as a prototypical strong female character has also made her a popular focus in feminist fiction. Theresa Tomlinson’s Forestwife novels (1993–2000) are told from Marian’s point of view, portray Marian as a high-born Norman girl escaping entrapment in an arranged marriage. With the aid of her nurse, she runs away to Sherwood Forest, where she becomes acquainted with Robin Hood and his men. Elsa Watson’s Maid Marian takes a similar approach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Marian
Was that last bit in bold that caught my eye in particular, because who do we know who was wanting to escape an arranged marriage, (not with the help of a nurse, but with the help of a fairy)? Perhaps the Marian we’ve already seen will fit one of the other characterisations of Robin’s lady love, and his future lady love will represent that last characterisation, and that way they can cover multiple bases and acknowledge multiple incarnations of the character. Perhaps?You know it’s possible that there might be some scene where whoever interferes with ReHo might also point out Marian to Robin. Like, “look at her. Isn’t she lovely?” I could see Blue doing this. And they wouldn’t need to put that actress on the press release if she has no lines and is just an extra.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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