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@MysteryKat25 wrote:
AngieBelle – I sent in an email to the podcast addressing the name thing: it would make sense that if Bae is on the run from his dad that he change it (way too unique a name) and that with every realm change he might change it again to have the trail stop. If anybody who knew who he was before came looking for that name, the name changes would make sense and if Peter were discovered to be Bae it would explain changing it to Neal Cassidy (which has Peter Pan references in it apparently) when he came to our world. If I were on the run with a unique name I’d keep changing it every time somebody figured out who I was too.
While I am still an opponent to the theory, I would say there’s another reason he would change his name from Peter Pan to Neal if he is. He would have likely discovered that people in our world already know of Peter Pan as a fictional character, so he would change it to retain his privacy.
[adrotate group="5"]@AngieBelle wrote:
I would really prefer that Bae is a lost boy and not Peter himself. Peter is usually very against growing up, and I want him to be his own character. Why would Bae rename himself Peter and then Neal? I think that perhaps Bae ended up going to Neverland because when his father didn’t join him in through the portal, he automatically became lost and was sent as a lost boy.
I completely agree. Neal is already interesting as his own character. He doesn’t need to be Peter Pan, too. If anything, I’d like Peter Pan to be a mentor to Bae.
From ABC’s press release:
“The enhanced version of “Once Upon a Time” will include text on the screen and will “let viewers in” on clues within the show.”
We actually did get the beanstalk title card for Tallahasse. Perhaps there were some ideas planned for Season 2 early on that got abandoned or held off. We never even saw Mulan in her traditional Chinese woman outfit like that title card depicted.
Oh, and the “enhanced” rebroadcasts means that those particular episodes will have on screen trivia and stuff. It’s actually a nice way to get people to rewatch episodes during the hiatus.
Thanks. We actually don’t have legit airdates for 19-21 confirmed yet officially, so I will hold off on posting those for now. Those airdates posted on twitter seem to be assumptions based on 22’s airdate. My main reason is that a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie airs after Once’s timeslot on April 21st, so I am not sure if they’ll hold off to schedule it for a night when Revenge and Red Widow are new too.
Yeah, even though I don’t personally avoid spoilers, I do think constantly promoting the episode with #OneWillDie wasn’t the best move on their part. The death would have been more dramatic if people didn’t see it coming. However, from a marketing sense, I realize why they did it. Hyping up that someone dies will still attract viewers to tune in, knowing that this must be a HUGE episode. It’s the same logic with promos, which ABC WANTS people to see despite possible spoilers. It’s a double-edged sword.
@Chexmex325 wrote:
Holy crap I just had a thought!…what if Regina REALLY did find Charming on the side of the road and he didn’t just magically appear in the hospital. In one of the pics it looks like Mary Margaret is seeing him in the hospital for the first time. Maybe there’s this accident with that guy and his kid that leads to the road just outside Storybrooke (going off the title card in another thread and spoilers about a car chase). THAT’S when she finds Charming and she’s all surprised because she thought he was dead…or something…idk. So many theories! Gawd I need this episode naow 😆
I hadn’t even thought of that, and I love this theory! Actually getting to see Regina finding Charming on the side of the road would be neat!
If you click the tab “Broadcast Only” and then “Episodes”, it shows Once in the number 1 spot for the night in terms of broadcast scripted TV shows. I think when twitter is calculated into the Nielsen ratings starting this Fall, it will be a huge factor in Once’s favor. The current Nielsen sample just doesn’t seem to reflect the real viewers tuning in well enough. 🙂
@MysteryKat25 wrote:
Sometimes saying something isn’t going to happen CAN be a spoiler. If somebody wants to theorize that something is possible and then everybody is saying no it’s not because they said it’s not gonna happen it’s frustrating. It also messes up theories that prove true by saying it must be wrong because we were told this isn’t gonna happen and sometimes they’re sneaky we weren't gonna see Henry's dad last year but we did see Bae; we're not supposed to see Peter Pan this year but it doesn't rule out he's someone we've already met etc, just won't be identified in such terms. Nothing more frustrating than having to repeatedly explain this is how they tease stuff and it’s not definitive proof that a theory is wrong. Rule nothing out until absolutely necessary!
That being said regarding the BF thing I think they might have gotten a kick out of everybody assuming she was bad but they eventually got to the point where they felt like they needed to defend her: I remember an official podcast where they said she was good and she was mother superior because it put her in a position where she was trying to help people still and couldn't and that was her curse – something along those lines
It’s why if you see me in the live-chats I get so frustrated with people just saying “that’s not gonna happen” whether they know it or not just because they don’t like the theory. No need to kill it off for the rest of the people that want to theorize. (Sometimes they do in fact know because they see more spoilers than I do but in that case they really shouldn’t say anything cause I can see where definitively saying they’ve said it’s not gonna happen is a spoiler to some and sometimes the word spoiler doesn’t mean telling, it literally means ruin that type of fun of guessing without knowing anything other than what we’ve seen so far. It’s a very fine line and that goes for questions answered on twitter as well.)
Back to ratings: hopefully having a chance to live-tweet with some of the cast and writers draws in ratings. I know I rewatched the DVR when the west coast aired just to see what they were saying (and the actors are fun to watch interact, even on twitter) in order to make sense of their comments so that hopefully helped with not only live-viewing but DVR numbers as well (at least for those who saw it in earlier time zones). I haven’t seen adjusted numbers for this episode but I really hope that was the case.
I can understand that, but at the same time there are clearly many questions that will likely remained unanswered by the show itself. In order to get additional trivia you sometimes have no choice but to get the answer from the writers outside the show. Sometimes knowing these questions that the show will likely never answer itself can make the theories more fun and can lead to the construction of new ones. There’s also a difference between the types of answers the writers say. Stuff like “Rumple is not Regina’s father” and the BF thing are not in the same league as answers that are more carefully worded and teased like we won't see Peter Pan this Season. On a similar note, I’m sure people who are complete spoilerphobes are confused about why Rumple wouldn't remember who he was if he had crossed the town line without the shawl, since the show itself never directly explained that hearing Emma's name made him remember. Yes it was somewhat implied, but I feel it wasn't clear enough and I personally would have assumed he simply always remembered had I not heard from Adam and Eddy.
Back on the topic of ratings, TVByTheNumbers made an error and Amazing Race actually got a bump to a 2.4, so it still beat Once by a tenth. I too think more live tweeting while an episode airs would be a good idea to boost ratings. Though, it doesn’t always work. Jorge Garcia live tweeted during “Tiny”, and that episode had at the time broke the record for the lowest rated episode of the series. More prolific members of the cast would likely work better in the long run.
