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Keck’s Exclusives: Once Upon a Time Stars Talk Season Finale

With Storybrooke on the verge of imploding, are Once Upon a Time fans about to see the last of the magical seaside village? Will the action move to Neverland, as foretold by the titles of this season’s last two episodes, “Second Star to the Right” and “And Straight on ‘Til Morning”? (These are the directions to Neverland that Peter Pan gives Wendy, John and Michael.) I visited the Vancouver set during the final days of Season 2 filming to squeeze some juicy info out of the cast and executive producers. The finale airs May 12 at 8/7c on ABC.

TV Guide Magazine: What’s the coolest thing about the season finale?
Robert Carlyle (Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin): Sneezy, who went over the town line, might be getting his ­memory back.
Edward Kitsis (executive producer): And if he gets his memory back for a happy dwarf reunion, I wonder what other characters could, too?
Carlyle: There’s a lovely ­moment Emilie de Ravin [Belle] and I shot that Rumpbelle fans will love. But in Once style, ­it doesn’t last long.
Adam Horowitz (executive producer): After two years, these characters are going to a place emotionally and physically different from where they’ve ever gone before.
Ginnifer Goodwin (Mary Margaret/Snow White): There is something that happens in the finale that breaks a pattern, and I look forward to seeing how that changes the ­people involved.
Lana Parrilla (Regina/Evil Queen): I love that there’s a possibility for Snow and Regina to have a relationship. We’re all family.
Kitsis: You all have blood on your hands, but you all have love in your hearts. The question is, what will unite our rivals? Magic’s got a price, and it’s incredibly heartbreaking.
Josh Dallas (David/Prince Charming): Like the finale of Season 1, this will change it all completely.

TV Guide Magazine: When you learned that Storybrooke was in danger of being destroyed in the finale, what were your thoughts?
Parrilla: I thought, “Poor Steveston” [the British Columbia town that doubles for Storybrooke]. It’s made such a living off the show.
Carlyle: I’d be sincerely upset to lose Mr. Gold’s shop. I’m very, very protective of it.
Goodwin: Oh, yes, you are! [Whispers] None of the rest of us are allowed to touch anything in there.
Parrilla: Even the props that once belonged to us! Or we’ll get hit in the hand with his cane.

TV Guide Magazine: Once Upon a Time has not yet killed off an original main character — compared with, say, The Walking Dead, which has now killed off four.
[Dallas’s and Goodwin’s eyes widen with horror]
Dallas: You just ruined The Walking Dead for us!
Goodwin: We just started watching Season 2. This is why we will not spoil our final two episodes for our audience! [Laughs]

TV Guide Magazine: Sorry! Eddy and Adam, since you previously worked on Lost, does this finale remind you of any Lost storylines?
Horowitz: As with Lost, the biggest thing we’re striving to do each season is find ways to keep the show the same but move it to a new place.

TV Guide Magazine: There’s a scene that finds most of you, plus Henry (Jared Gilmore), congregating in the diamond mine. What can you tease about this?
Parrilla: What’s surprising about this is the light and dark forces trying to work together for a greater good.

TV Guide Magazine: Does that apply to Mr. Gold as well?
Carlyle: No, no. Not at all. He’s in a different place. For him, it’s all about getting Belle back.

TV Guide Magazine: What can you say about the introduction of Peter Pan’s Neverland?
Kitsis: I can say Neverland will have consequences for, and touch, everyone at this table.
Jennifer Morrison (Emma): That sounds dirty, Eddy. Peter Pan has always been one of my favorites, so I can’t wait to meet him.

TV Guide Magazine: With Neverland coming into play, is there a possibility for Emma to ­capture some of her lost childhood?
Kitsis: The interesting thing is, [Neverland] is about belief and lost youth. And now that Emma is back with her parents, you have a group of people who will never get back the time they lost — including Mr. Gold, who lost a long time with his son [Baelfire]. And a hint for Season 3 is that Emma’s job with magic is far from done.

TV Guide Magazine: What about the possibility of the characters getting doused with pixie dust and taking flight?
Kitsis: “You have to believe in fairies” is what I heard.
Parrilla: We’ll be flying until the harnesses start to kill our bodies, and then we’ll be like, “We don’t want to fly anymore!”
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Carlyle: There’s a lovely ­moment Emilie de Ravin [Belle] and I shot that Rumpbelle fans will love. But in Once style, ­it doesn’t last long

Ok either she gets her memories back and we have a lovely Rumbelle moment but it’s over too quick because there is so much going on OR she doesn’t get her memories back but Rumple and Lacey have a heart to heart.

Carlyle: I’d be sincerely upset to lose Mr. Gold’s shop. I’m very, very protective of it.
Goodwin: Oh, yes, you are! [Whispers] None of the rest of us are allowed to touch anything in there.
Parrilla: Even the props that once belonged to us! Or we’ll get hit in the hand with his can

Perfect cast is perfect

Carlyle: No, no. Not at all. He’s in a different place. For him, it’s all about getting Belle back.

I am keeping the faith.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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TV Guide Magazine: There’s a scene that finds most of you, plus Henry (Jared Gilmore), congregating in the diamond mine. What can you tease about this?
Parrilla: What’s surprising about this is the light and dark forces trying to work together for a greater good.

Ohhh! Maybe the main characters are all in the diamond minds because of the fail-safe! It looks diamond-shaped, so maybe the ruby/gem fits into a slot, which if pushed, is like a self-destruct button!

TV Guide Magazine: With Neverland coming into play, is there a possibility for Emma to ­capture some of her lost childhood?
Kitsis: The interesting thing is, [Neverland] is about belief and lost youth. And now that Emma is back with her parents, you have a group of people who will never get back the time they lost — including Mr. Gold, who lost a long time with his son [Baelfire]. And a hint for Season 3 is that Emma’s job with magic is far from done.

So stoked for NL, Emma’s magic, and Peter Pan! 😀

@RumplesGirl wrote:

Carlyle: No, no. Not at all. He’s in a different place. For him, it’s all about getting Belle back.

I am keeping the faith.

I’m with you on that one, though I’m admittedly a tad apprehensive about this guy. Please, prove us right, Mr. Gold, that you can change for the better. 😕

"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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Carlyle: I’d be sincerely upset to lose Mr. Gold’s shop. I’m very, very protective of it.
Goodwin: Oh, yes, you are! [Whispers] None of the rest of us are allowed to touch anything in there.
Parrilla: Even the props that once belonged to us! Or we’ll get hit in the hand with his cane

There’s just no escaping the Cane of Pain.

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Ohhh! Maybe the main characters are all in the diamond minds because of the fail-safe! It looks diamond-shaped, so maybe the ruby/gem fits into a slot, which if pushed, is like a self-destruct button!

I like it! Also, the idea of a fail safe deep underground that requires a “key” of some sort…. how very end of S2 of LOST. Paging, Desmond Hume….(if you haven’t seen LOST, trust me. This sounds exactly like the end of S2)

I’m worried this means SB will actually disappear for good. That even though they all get on the Jolly Roger to head out, SB still disappears at the end of the season

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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@RumplesGirl wrote:

Ohhh! Maybe the main characters are all in the diamond minds because of the fail-safe! It looks diamond-shaped, so maybe the ruby/gem fits into a slot, which if pushed, is like a self-destruct button!

I like it! Also, the idea of a fail safe deep underground that requires a “key” of some sort…. how very end of S2 of LOST. Paging, Desmond Hume….(if you haven’t seen LOST, trust me. This sounds exactly like the end of S2)

I’m worried this means SB will actually disappear for good. That even though they all get on the Jolly Roger to head out, SB still disappears at the end of the season

I think it’s a pretty sure thing that SB is going to vanish into thin air, just like it appeared out of nowhere.

"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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I think it’s a pretty sure thing that SB is going to vanish into thin air, just like it appeared out of nowhere.

I’m inclined to agree. So a few questions that brings up:
1) What happens to the rest of the cast? Dwarves, fairies, Red/Granny, rest of the townsfolk?

2) Are we never going to see it again? Is each season going to take us to a new land until we finally get back to FTL for good?

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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@RumplesGirl wrote:

I think it’s a pretty sure thing that SB is going to vanish into thin air, just like it appeared out of nowhere.

I’m inclined to agree. So a few questions that brings up:
1) What happens to the rest of the cast? Dwarves, fairies, Red/Granny, rest of the townsfolk?

Minor main characters like Ruby and the dwarves will dedicate themselves to recolonizing the EF. I hope the fairies finally put the magic to use and get rid of the ogre threats. David said they somehow managed to get rid of the ogres before, so I hope the fairies can do so again.

2) Are we never going to see it again? Is each season going to take us to a new land until we finally get back to FTL for good?

I’m not sure we will see SB again. Henry said he always expected everyone to go back to the EF one day. Plus, purely form a storytelling perspective, SB has served its main purpose, which was to house the residents of the EF during the curse. Now with the curse broken and the option of returning home, I don’t see why they’d want to stay in our world. Also, it’s too hard to have 3 simultaneous plot-lines going. In the first part of S2, it was really dissatisfying to a lot of fans to keep track of SB present, EF flashbacks, and post-apocolytpic EF all at once. By eliminating SB, we will mostly focus on NL, EF flashbacks, with maybe just a quick glimpse of the dwarves and fairies back in present-day EF. But the major focus will be NL for the first part of S3, and maybe moving on to Oz or other lands by the second-half of S3.

"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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Only bad thing about leaving Storybrooke is it’ll be a lot harder for us to get set pictures now. D@mn.

[RumplesGirl]

I’m not sure we will see SB again. Henry said he always expected everyone to go back to the EF one day. Plus, purely form a storytelling perspective, SB has served its main purpose, which was to house the residents of the EF during the curse. Now with the curse broken and the option of returning home, I don’t see why they’d want to stay in our world. Also, it’s too hard to have 3 simultaneous plot-lines going. In the first part of S2, it was really dissatisfying to a lot of fans to keep track of SB present, EF flashbacks, and post-apocolytpic EF all at once. By eliminating SB, we will mostly focus on NL, EF flashbacks, with maybe just a quick glimpse of the dwarves and fairies back in present-day EF. But the major focus will be NL for the first part of S3, and maybe moving on to Oz or other lands by the second-half of S3.

Oz! Yes, Oz! But I think you’re right and it was hard (for the more casual viewer) to keep three lands and times in their head. So I think we’ll have something similar to S1, NL of the past and NL of the present. But I can also see them having one or two filler episodes where we leave NL and check in on the cast in the EF.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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