OUAT Producers Give Finale Teasers

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‘Once Upon A Time’ producers talk last week’s killer episode, tease ‘game-changing’ season finale
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/08/once-upon-a-time-season-finale/

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So after Henry’s little dilemma, shall we say, we’re going to see Regina and Emma team up. What’s their interaction like?
EDWARD KITSIS: Well, what we can say about it is they’re still enemies and at odds, but they now have found a common purpose throwing them together in the finale, and it’s an uneasy alliance. The antagonism between the two of them that started in the pilot continues to grow and boil in the finale.

Does Henry’s situation affect anyone else besides Emma and Regina?
ADAM HOROWITZ: I think what’s interesting is that it affects everyone, in a way. In this season, Henry — by bringing Emma into town — touched everyone’s lives in a real and meaningful way, in that he is a true believer and believes he can help these people. Him being in jeopardy definitely has an effect on everyone.

What will have to happen for Henry to wake up?
HOROWITZ: Well, that we can’t tell you, because that would say he wakes up! All I know is this: Magic is unpredictable in this world.

What’s happening in fairy tale land in the season finale? Snow’s eaten the apple, the gang finds her. Tell me about that rescue mission.
KITSIS: What we’re trying to do with some of this fairy tale stuff in the finale is kind of twofold, which is fill in a few of the blanks that we set up in the pilot this year, but also hopefully surprise you with something new about that story that you didn’t know.
HOROWITZ: If last week really focused on Snow White’s side of the story, this week will focus a lot on Prince Charming’s side of the story.

We’re also going to see the reappearance of Jamie Dornan as the Huntsman. How does he figure into the story?
HOROWITZ: It’s one of our favorite reveals.
KITSIS: We don’t want to spoil that other than to say that having Jamie back for the finale was really, really exciting and everybody was so happy to have him. It was really fun to do, and we can’t wait to see the audience reaction.

Will the finale change the make-up of the show? Will it be a jaw dropper?
HOROWITZ: I think it will be.
KITSIS: We don’t want to anticipate what the audience is going to think or how they’re going to take it, but we can speak to how we as writers have approached it and what it’s done for us, and for us, it is a big game-changing kind of thing in terms of how we approach the show.

By the end of the episode, will Emma have decided whether she finally believes in fairy tales?
HOROWITZ: I would seriously say that question gets asked and explored.
KITSIS: We’ve been building it in the last two episodes particularly, exploring the nature of Emma’s relationship to the town and what’s going on with it, and that intensifies to a degree.
HOROWITZ: Obviously if [someone] came to you and said, “Hey, you’re the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, you need to save everyone from this curse,” you’d think they were crazy. For us, we really wanted to earn [Emma’s] belief and earn her arc based on who she is as a character and the way she grew up. We understand that there’s a frustration, but there’s also a reality and we think that the finale will really explore that.
KITSIS: It’s not easy for Emma, just like it wouldn’t be easy for any person from our world to deal with this kind of idea. One of the things we’re excited about with the finale is really ratcheting up the intensity on her.

Is Regina’s dream foreshadowing? Or was it just a dream? If she were to have Storybrooke turn on her, is that how it would play out?
KITSIS: I would say that it was definitely foreshadowing in the last episode, and I think that if you watch the finale and you go back, there will be a few things in there that will make people go,“Ahhh.”

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Even more OUAT spoilers from EPs Kitsis and Horowitz:

Once Upon a Time Bosses Tease a ‘Severely Intense’ Finale (Featuring a Lost-Style ‘Reset’?)
http://tvline.com/2012/05/09/once-upon-a-time-season-1-finale-preview/

“All magic has a price,” a certain imperious imp has oft told us — but has Once Upon a Time‘s young Henry paid the ultimate one?

The Season 1 finale of ABC’s fantastical freshman drama airs this Sunday at 8/7c, presumably tackling the questions of the headstrong lad’s fate, his birth mom Emma’s belief in her role as the “savior” of a Maine berg to where fairytale characters have been banished sans memories, and whether the dark curse levied by the Evil Queen aka Mayor Regina Mills will ever be lifted.

Here is what Once co-creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz shared with TVLine about the undoubtedly magical season-ender.

TVLINE | What’s going on as the finale starts up? Are we in crisis mode?
EDWARD KITSIS | We are at DEFCON 1. Henry has fallen, and everything is culminating…. The entire finale is severely intense.
ADAM HOROWITZ | We hit the ground running and then pick up even more speed.

TVLINE | With Henry’s poisoning, does Emma’s belief level spike?
KITSIS | We’ve tried everything. We tried to show her a man turning into wood, we tried to show her weird anomalies in the town… Henry has taken the most extreme action he could, so she is definitely going to be faced with believing or not, because his life hangs in the balance.
HOROWITZ | The stakes have never been higher for her, in terms of her belief.

TVLINE | But obviously you’re not killing Henry. I mean, Jared Gilmore just won a Young Artist Award!
KITSIS | He did just win an award – and congrats, it’s much deserved. But you never know what might happen….

TVLINE | Tell me about your choice in “poison apple delivery system.” I have to imagine there was some debate in the writers room over turnover versus fritter versus….
HOROWITZ | We actually did have a bit of a debate about that.
KITSIS | I think we went with a turnover because we liked the shape, and it felt contained. With a pie, what do you do with the extra pieces?
HOROWITZ | Also, it didn’t feel like there was enough apple to make a pie.
KITSIS | True, we had to be realistic about what you could make out of an apple with a bite out of it.

TVLINE | What other drama is going on in Storybrooke outside of the Henry thing?
KITSIS | All of the stories in Storybrooke are going to be stemming from Henry falling.
HOROWITZ | They all kind of converge around that pivot point. And the intensity does grow.

TVLINE | How is August doing? Is he flipping through termite control ads?
HOROWITZ | We do check in on August and his condition, and that does play a part in the finale. Everybody’s agendas – Regina’s, Gold’s, August’s – all sort of intertwine around this crisis point.

TVLINE | What is Mr. Gold’s particular take on the Henry situation?
KITSIS | We got his take in the last episode, where Regina says she came up with a sleeping curse, and he says, “All magic has a price.” So… magic has a price! It’s just a question of who pays it.

TVLINE | We’ve kind of come full circle on the Snow White story – she’s bitten the apple, and in the pilot Prince Charming rescued her. Or will the fairytale land be subject to a finale twist of its own?
KITSIS | The finale will kind of tie up some loose ends to their story, and at the same time present a new avenue for Season 2. But…. Well….
HOROWITZ | “We don’t want to tell you,” is what it is. [Laughs]

TVLINE | I guess my bigger question here is: Should we prepare for some Lost-style “reset”? Will this be an instance of the playing field changing Sunday at 8:59 pm?
HOROWITZ | How the audience perceives it, we can’t anticipate, but for us it does change the playing field. We like to think what we’re doing is evolving the show so that it remains true to what it’s been this year, but it takes a step forward into something new.
KITSIS | I feel like the best way to experience the finale is to say, “What the hell are they going to do?”
HOROWITZ | And one of our other goals with the finale – you’ll tell us whether we succeed or not – is that at the end of it you say, “What the hell are they going to do next?”

TVLINE | Will the finale introduce any new players to the canvas?
KITSIS | It will introduce some new… story ideas. But as far as new characters, if you’re talking, like, Michelle Rodriguez showing up at the end of a Lost finale, no. That’s not to say there won’t be new characters next year; but this finale is about the characters we’ve introduced.
HOROWITZ | And there may be some old characters seen in a new way.

TVLINE | What gamut of emotions will viewers be going through during, say, the final 60 seconds?
KITSIS | All of them.
HOROWITZ | Our hope is that in those final moments, there is a combination of satisfaction and also intense surprise.
KITSIS | The emotion you’ll be feeling is, “Holy, holy, holy s—t.”

"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

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All this anticipation! Ahhhh cannot wait!

TVLINE | What gamut of emotions will viewers be going through during, say, the final 60 seconds?
KITSIS | All of them.

I’ll just be staring daggers at my tv like 😮

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I hope it is good. I am a little worried about the finale because if they are doing a complete game changer as in what are they going to do next season, then i worry that the show will be too different.

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Anything you can spill on Once Upon a Time finale that we don’t already have?
Just that it’s going to be a very tough hour for Regina. Cocreator Edward Kitsis tells us, “Regina enacted a curse for revenge that left a hole in her heart that she’s trying to fill with Henry.” She’s always so in control and so calculated, but will seeing Henry in danger because of her apple tart of doom push her over the edge? Kitsis promises, “This will test her unlike any other.”

http://uk.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/spoiler_chat_daily_glee_season_four/315016

"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

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Once Upon a Time Q&A: Show Creators Kitsis and Horowitz Answer Our Burning Questions About the Finale
http://www.tv.com/news/once-upon-a-time-q-and-a-show-creators-kitsis-and-horowitz-answer-our-burning-questions-about-the-finale-28617/

Have I mentioned how awesome TV.com’s Once Upon a Time commenters are? A couple days ago we put out a call for your burning questions going into the finale and I got an amazing flood of really hard-hitting, interesting questions to consider and incorporate. Seriously, there were too many good questions to choose from in the five minutes I had on the phone with OUaT producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Also, they were understandably tight-lipped about details but they were clearly describing a fully built world to me that both of them understand inside and out, like a tangible country they’ve often visited. They’ve poured a lot of thought into this show, and their answers were honestly illuminating; they really helped me get a better handle on the multi-reality madness that holds us in its thrall every Sunday, although I’ll confess I have basically no idea what is going to happen in the Season 1 finale (one of my biggest predictions was blown completely out of the water by one of the answers below!). So I can’t wait to see how you interpret their answers. Ready? Here we go!

Why hasn’t Regina used Belle to bargain with Rumpelstiltskin?
Edward Kitsis: That is an interesting thing because if you’re going to enter into a negotiation like that, you need to have extreme leverage, because if you came to him, like, in the last episode, and said, “I’ll give you something that YOU want if you do this, I have Belle locked up,” and I’m Mr.Gold, I would probably just choke you and then go release her. So I’d say that for Regina to unveil that information has to be done in a way that won’t lead to her death. Because once he finds out what she’s done, God help us all.

Are we going to see Rumplestiltskin’s son, Bae, in the finale?
Kitsis: No. If the curse were ever to be broken, would the people in Storybrooke age forward? Would Snow and Charming be 28 years older?

Adam Horowitz: The questions of what happens when and if the curse is ever broken, we have answers and we are excited to share them with the audience at the appropriate time, but we want them to experience it on the show.

What do you consider your most successful episode of the first season and why?
Kitsis: It’s hard to say because you always love the new episode best, it’s new, it’s fresh, it’s exciting. I don’t know that I could pick my favorite but I can say we really love the Mad Hatter episode and we love the Red Riding episode and I start realizing I’m happy with all of them…it’s like saying, “Which child is your favorite?”

Horowitz: It’s kind of the way we write the show is, we’ve got an amazing group of writers and we sit in a room and we kind of come up with these stories and these big arcs and this stuff for an entire season, so it’s kind of like one giant episode. So the most satisfying thing for us is to look back at the season and say, there was a story we set out to tell and we told it the way we wanted to. And we’re excited for the audience to see how the season concludes.

Well I know I personally want the show to go on forever, I love watching it and I know my readers love watching it, but how many seasons do you see it running for?
Horowitz: Oh, you know, it’s—that’s up to the audience. We have a lot of ideas for how we’d like to continue forward.

Kitsis: I think that, you know, for us we want to do something surprising that moves forward. It’s also an interesting thing that people are already calling for the end of a show that they love. So no, we don’t want to go Season 12 where we don’t recognize any of the cast members. But we’re only in Season 1 right now, we feel like we have a few seasons left in us.

So I have another question about the logistics of the curse: If Henry is the only kid aging in this town, how have the other kids and parents not noticed that he’s progressively aging while everyone else is still frozen in time?
Horowtiz: Well, that’s the curse!

Kitsis: In Episode 2—the clock started moving forward in the pilot, and time started to move forward and everyone started to age, and previously to that everyone kind of lived in what we call a “constant present.”

Horowtiz: The way we think about it is, the curse is an organic, active thing that was working on all these residents for these 28 years, and keeping them in this state of a constant present, and adjusting itself for Henry’s growth and aging. And so when Emma arrived and the clock ticked, that’s when all bets were off and things changed.

So Henry’s been kind of trapped in that constant present and vaguely aware of it?
Kitsis: Yes, and it wasn’t until he got the book and started to question it that he started to wake up. And when he started to wake up is when he started to look around and notice that no one was aging and things started to seem the same, like time was frozen, and he wanted Emma. And it wasn’t until the book that even he himself knew it.

Should we assume that August wrote the book because he repaired the pages?
Kitsis: I would not assume that.

Last question. They were able to snatch the apple in the last episode. Are you going to introduce any sort of time-traveling element to the logic of the show?
Horowitz: No, it’s not about time travel so much as, Jefferson says very carefully to Regina, think about a time and a place where this thing is, and that’s how magic was able to reach across time and space to bring it. It’s not about travelng back and forth in time or changing the past or the present. These are the things that happened.

"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

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ONCE UPON A TIME’: JOSH DALLAS PREVIEWS FINALE. WILL STORYBROOKE STEP UP?
After working on Lost, Once Upon a Time executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsiss know how to tease finales. Proof? This timely characterization of Sunday’s season finale: “They are the gang. They are the Fairy Tale Avengers,” they told EW in a chat earlier this week. Take a moment to take that in. Squeal with excitement. Now, compose yourself long enough to take in some elaboration, straight from Josh Dallas, who stopped by the office just yesterday.

“There’s a lot going on,” he says. “Charming’s in prison, Henry back in Storybrooke has eaten the pie. We don’t know what’s going on. He’s in a coma right now. They’re trying to convince Emma that all this is real so that she can be the savior. There’s a lot of things to deal with in the finale, and it’s like a train that will not stop. It just keeps on going.”

But how will all of these moving parts intersect in the finale? And will it possibly involve a situation that mirrors Regina’s dream in the penultimate episode? “I can say that the people in Storybrooke — some people have already started to wake up and realize what the deal is and what’s going on,” Dallas says. “We also know that some people in Storybrooke know who they are and what’s going on — like August, who is Pinocchio. We know something is stirring in Storybrooke and hopefully some things happen in the finale.”

Cagey, I know. But there’s a lot to protect here. As has been said, the finale is a classic Lost-style reset that will deliver answers, questions, and, surely, frustration, since we have to wait months for a new episode. “You get a lot, and you get a lot taken away,” he says.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/11/once-upon-a-time-house-burn-notice-vampire-diaries-spoilers/

"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

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@slurpeez108 wrote:

Why hasn’t Regina used Belle to bargain with Rumpelstiltskin?
Edward Kitsis: That is an interesting thing because if you’re going to enter into a negotiation like that, you need to have extreme leverage, because if you came to him, like, in the last episode, and said, “I’ll give you something that YOU want if you do this, I have Belle locked up,” and I’m Mr.Gold, I would probably just choke you and then go release her. So I’d say that for Regina to unveil that information has to be done in a way that won’t lead to her death. Because once he finds out what she’s done, God help us all.

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Well, you said it, my friend. 😀 I honestly cannot wait for it to happen!

[hjbau]

Are they really going to have everyone regain their memories and then lose them again right away? That doesn’t seem like a new adventure to me.

[midnight dreary]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

Why hasn’t Regina used Belle to bargain with Rumpelstiltskin?
Edward Kitsis: That is an interesting thing because if you’re going to enter into a negotiation like that, you need to have extreme leverage, because if you came to him, like, in the last episode, and said, “I’ll give you something that YOU want if you do this, I have Belle locked up,” and I’m Mr.Gold, I would probably just choke you and then go release her. So I’d say that for Regina to unveil that information has to be done in a way that won’t lead to her death. Because once he finds out what she’s done, God help us all.

LOL!!! I’m actually hoping that Mr. Gold ends up choking Regina when he finds out. 😆

But I’m glad the producer addressed why Regina hasn’t used Belle as leverage yet. They’re absolutely right. Regina needs to be careful about how she handles Belle. It could very well lead to her death. Or at the very least, a wheelchair. 😆

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