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Either the OUAT Promotion Crew are broke, or just plain lazy. This is seriously getting ridiculous, we haven’t had any new promotional shots since Season 3. (Shakes head)
Which begs the question, where did they get the Robin Hood photo from? Did they just photoshop him out of a regular Season 3 or 4 production still? I guess if we ever see them use promotional photos of Zelena, they’ll recycle the promotional photos they did with her from 3B.
[adrotate group="5"]Expect the first half of the season to focus on what happens to the gang while the characters are at Camelot and then again in the present day. Kitsis explained: It’s going to be similar to season 3B in that we are going to be flashing back to Camelot and a present day story.”
Confirmation of the timeskip theory that’s been going around.
Look for the backstories of Merlin, Arthur and Lancelot. However, don’t expect those stories to fully take us away from our regular cast. “It’s really about our core group of characters and what they’re going through,” says Horowitz. And, yes, we’ll see Merlin (Elliot Knight) in the pilot but not in a way you might expect.
Hopefully this is really the case. I know several were annoyed at some of the Frozen flashbacks that didn’t involve any core characters, or they appeared in a minor supporting role. My theory is that Young Emma will run into Merlin disguised as an “usher.”
Instead of our core characters being the only ones to go to Camelot, the producers intentionally added more of our supporting group of characters. “It was a conscious decision to bring them along for the ride to Camelot,” said Horowitz. “Being the fifth season, we’re going to hopefully try and see as many old faces as we can this year,” added Kitsis.
I’m cautiously optimistic about this.
At the start of the season, Gold is still down and out … but don’t expect that to lost too long. “I don’t think it would be much fun to just see him lying around the whole season,” teased Kitsis. “I can say that his arc in Storybrooke is something we haven’t fully seen before. It is going to go right into his very essence as a character.”
Well that’s good to know. I still suspect he won’t wake up until around 505, midway through this storyarc.
Last day for filming #OnceUponATime 5×07 will be Thursday (9/24); the simultaneously filming of 5×08 and 5×09 will start Friday (9/25) #OUAT
— Larry Andreutti (@BastardSonVan) September 20, 2015
“The Devil’s Snare” being the first obstacle also ties into the Underworld/Hell comparisons to the Forbidden Corridor.
If they’re giving Excalibur its own promo pic with a tagline like, “Mightiest of all Swords”, it will surely be related to the Dagger. Like, Merlin lopped Excalibur’s end off to make the Dagger from the special metal.
Then he was all, “Bugger, they’ll be able to tell I’ve messed around with it and it’s shorter now. I know, I’ll shove it in this rock and it can stay there for a couple centuries until there’s no one left alive who knows what it’s meant to look like, so no one will know the difference when it pops up again.” Or something.
Rumple was also quite knowledgeable about Merlin and Excalibur. He specifically tells Snow that he wouldn’t be able to destroy the real Excalibur, when he was presented with the fake. I can’t recall if it’s been said if the dagger itself is indestructible or not, but if it is, that’s another possible connection.
Now that we know that Mulan is appearing this Season, her own sword was powerful enough to deflect magic. Could there be a connection with Mulan’s sword, too? For the record, her sword looks different than Excalibur does in that promotional poster, so doubtful that the two swords are one in the same. Still, Mulan’s sword could have ties with Camelot:
