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@myril wrote:
Why do I think it might look like ECT (Electroconvulsion therapy)?
I was thinking more along the lines of lobotomy, tbh.
[adrotate group="5"]@Dreaming_Mike wrote:
Plus, the Red Queen looks like she can use magic. Let’s get a guest appearance by Rumple.
Fairy tale villains in Onceverse need either magic or an army to be effective, preferably both. When you get none you have Hook and Storybrooke’s King George. 🙂
ETA:
Trailer is now on YouTube:
@Dreaming_Mike wrote:
If this truly takes place before OUAT in the timeline, are we to possibly assume that Alice is not Grace’s mother, just going off the context of the trailer?
It’s still very much muddy how the spin-off will fit in terms of the Curse timeline. It can take place wholly before, wholly after, after with flashbacks or even be connected only in name with ONCE.
Take the Knave of Hearts character, for example. He looks like he *COULD* be a younger version of Paul McGillion’s character featured in Hat Trick and Queen of Hearts, or he could be a different character altogether, with McGillion’s character being retconned to be someone else. Who knows?
That said, can that Rabbit find Neal and take him to his family in NL in the premiere? Pretty please?
Just saw it, IT WAS AWESOME! Loved the title card too, though I hope it’s an ever-changing one like ONCE’s. It’s always something I look for, to see what’ll be featured in the title card of the show.
Is it me or did they just link Alice with Neverland as well? Are we in for a crossover at some point in next season?
@RumplesGirl wrote:
Regular status doesn’t mean anything, honestly; both Raphael Sbarge and Meghan Ory were in this show and they were barely used in their seasons, while Claire Holt has never been one in Vampire Diaries and she had more of a storyline than several regulars in that show. What being a regular really brings is a name in the cast credits and more or less guaranteed wage even if you’re not featured in an episode or several.
I’m hoping that with the exception of MRJ–who makes total sense in the overall story–our cast is pretty much set for future seasons. From here on out, which land we happen to be in, the new characters should be guest stars who are relevant to the main characters storyline.
I agree completely.
Before the finale aired I feared a bit they’d promote Ethan Embry to regular status for the sake of the HO storyline, but since Tamara didn’t die and they already linked the HO to a much more dense character, Peter Pan, I guess we’ve dodged that bullet.
@MatthewPaul wrote:
@RumplesGirl wrote:
I love her and I loved Red but I honestly don’t know what more they could have done with her story. She got the big reveal of being the wolf, but Child of the Moon was very flat for me and it was clear that they can’t tell much more about Ruby. But I look forward to Intelligence!
Had they not gone through with trying to make her a regular, I think episode 207 would have been much better off continuing from where “Lady of The Lake” left off. You still could have had George take a major presence in the Storybrooke side of the episode, but the flashback could have been Snow and Charming fighting against him and taking back the kingdom. That would have been much more satisfying and would have been better suited for the plot. Meanwhile, George in Storybrooke would have tried getting his revenge in a much more interesting way than framing Ruby for a murder.
Then again, they had to adress whether or not Ruby would be changing into a wolf in a magicful Storybrooke, it was one of those nagging questions after season 1’s finale.
@MysteryKat25 wrote:
I think one of the other issues I remember hearing about was that Barbara Hershey didn’t want to be a regular. That meant wrapping up her storyline earlier than expected as well. I don’t think she minds coming back from time to time for a flashback here and there (and I’m sure we’ll see her on OUATIW sometime too) but she didn’t want to end up in a situation where she wasn’t getting as much storyline and not able to go anywhere else either I’m sure.
I think that was just a rumor, wasn’t it? It came about because many were confused at her story being concluded in 2×16 rather than the season finale since she was being portrayed as this Big Bad.
Regular status doesn’t mean anything, honestly; both Raphael Sbarge and Meghan Ory were in this show and they were barely used in their seasons, while Claire Holt has never been one in Vampire Diaries and she had more of a storyline than several regulars in that show. What being a regular really brings is a name in the cast credits and more or less guaranteed wage even if you’re not featured in an episode or several.
@MatthewPaul wrote:
Meghan said in an interview recently that she won’t be a regular next Season because of her new show, but is open to doing guest appearances at least “once a year.” She also added that they had initially planned to have Red/Ruby do more this past Season, but because of Neverland and the other busy storylines taking priority they simply couldn’t fit her in. Apparently Snow and Emma were going to be stuck in FTL a little longer, and Red was going to have a little more screentime. That sounds like being downgraded from a regular to me.
Also glad that they didn’t overextend Emma and Snow in FTL. I’ve always felt that they did and paced the first half of the season well enough, the only exception being the squid ink MacGuffin – they go all that trouble to find it to defeat Cora, but in the end it plays no role in that? Come on! -, but the second half was just too crammed with storylines that some plot points were inevitable done poorly: Archie’s “murder”, Pinocchio”s death and ressurection, Belle’s regaining of her memories, among others.
@MatthewPaul wrote:
I have a hunch that they might have originally thought of keeping Cora around till the Season finale, since she was built up as the “big bad” for a large chunk of the Season. However, they got too excited at the idea with Neverland, so they wrapped up her storyline earlier and introduced us to Greg/Tamara as the new threat. The Miller’s Daughter did very much feel like a Season finale, though not as epic as the Season finale we actually got. This makes sense if they really did plan to keep Emma and Snow in FTL a little longer at first. Greg, Tamara, and Neverland could have been introduced at the start of Season 3. With a better layout for Season 3 planned out, I have high hopes that it will be way less clunkier than Season 2 was.
You’re not alone. I’ve always felt they crammed two seasons in one starting with “The Cricket Game”. And while I agree that their Neverland concept seems to be absolutely awesome, it could’ve waited a bit to happen.
@KFChimera wrote:
Someone had a theory that August was a lost boy and had met Neal in NL at some point during August’s saga, that NL was also Pleasure Island. I’m not entirely sure of that (timeline headaches) but maybe. That could explain how August had the picture of the dagger, and knew about Bae’s name, if he got them from PP. I’m still wondering how much August knew about the curse, and why he felt total separation was necessary between Bae and Emma.
That’d be me. Let’s face it, Pinocchio essentially became a Lost Boy after being taken by Stromboli and up until he meets Gepetto again inside Monstro. Also, Neverland is an island where children live a youthful life not controlled by grown ups, not unlike to the concept of Pleasure Island, and this take of Peter Pan could very well fulfill the role of both Lampwick and the Coachman. The parallels are just too solid for the show not to take this route.
@KFChimera wrote:
Maybe there’s more to August’s reverting to a boy then just a cheesy way to end off his story…(but I’m doubtful!).
Oh, there was! It allowed the Blue Fairy to find the solution for Belle and Sneezy’s memories! *cough*Deus Ex Machina*cough* 🙄
@RumplesGirl wrote:
Looks the cast is going to remain the same for now! Colin was added as a regular after the midseason, so the same could happen for MRJ
But didn’t both Meghan and Emily get upgraded to regulars last June, weeks after the upfront?
@MatthewPaul wrote:
Just found the source for ABC saying how they will schedule Once this Season. It was stated by Paul Lee, the President of ABC himself:
ABC is changing things up in scheduling some of its serialized dramas. The network will air what ABC president Paul Lee called “a selected group” of dramas in two uninterrupted runs, one in the fall and one in the spring, bridged by limited series. The series that will be included in the new scheduling model include Once Upon A Time, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and likely Revenge, with others TBD. So far, the network only has set up a bridge series for Once, new adventure reality series The Quest. Lee said such bridge series won’t necessarily be all unscripted. Two cycles of 12 episodes would bring the total orders for the shows to 24, which is hard on a complex, serialized drama, but Lee indicated that number has not been set in stone. He said that the network is looking to further shake up the traditional scheduling model with “quality launches” throughout the season.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/abc-to-air-some-dramas-in-two-batches-of-12-episodes-next-season/
Thanks!
I guess this means they can plan the season as two mini-ones. They could wrap up Neverland in the first half and then start a new arc for the second one.
