Once Upon a Time (ABC TV Series)

[Disney Duster]

I never thought Emma was Jesus until I saw the Last Supper picture. That was really cringe-worthy. I can't believe they did that. It makes me wonder if these guys just are Christian or meant this as a Christian show...but they totally didn't make this a very Christian show.

I loved the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reference. My favorite moment of the episode was when Emma believed and everyone was stuck in what was left of their realm. Well, that part and the part at the ending with all the characters being happy finally.

I was dissapointed by the ending. I mean Rumple killed his mother of all people?! She wasn't trying to kill him! And so his ending was him just doing what was right when he almost did it two episodes ago with the other wand Tiger Lily got for him? And why couldn't Emma just have had an actual fight with the Black Fairy and she wins because she's so darn good at swordfighting and destined to win? Oh well, I guess what happened was natural. It seems she let herself be killed, so when Gideon killed her not of his own choosing, light didn't snuff out other light. I guess that makes sense. Oh, and Idon't think Snow actual saved Charming with her kiss, I think he just happened to start breathing after her kiss. Their was a magic sound but no magic light like they usually have when someone has a magical kiss.

Well, I'm ok with seeing the next season, but I think Emma should return more than just for one episode.

[bradhig]

I remember George Lucas saying he didn't like franchises and I don't either. That's sadly what Once a upon a time has become.

[milojthatch]

I definitely wouldn't have wanted the show to end in season 4. I would've been fine with 6 being the last because it was the first year I was bored by (although I blame a lot of executive decisions for how badly it played out), but I don't mind it staying on the air in reboot form with Regina and Hook. *shrug* Something to watch. Seems like all of the shows I've watched over the years are gone and nothing good's come to replace them. I'd been hoping OUAT would go 7 seasons ever since Downton Abbey ended.

I was board with season two and it just got worse from there until I finally changed my thinking and removed the show from my schedule. There isn't enough time in the day to watch so/so TV shows. If I am going to watch TV, I'd rather watch reruns of a show I know I love already than new episodes of a show that annoys me. I stopped watching Arrow and The Flash for the same reason. The writing on all three shows died somewhere along the line.

It's too bad becuase season one of OUAT actually caught my attention. I chalk this show up to one that had promise and never made good on it. Oh well, happy for everyone that enjoyed it.

[Sotiris]

Even though I thought S7 would assuredly be the last, Quantico just got renewed with much worse ratings….

It looks like season 7 will be its last. I really hope that's not true. I want the show to continue 'till season 10.

I kinda hope the stay out of Storybrook though, I'm sick of Storybrook.

You're in luck then! The showrunners confirmed that Storybrooke will no longer be the setting. If you want to know more details about their plans for season 7, you can read their interviews on Deadline, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, TV Guide, TV Line, The Wrap, and Yahoo! TV.


ABC released a synopsis and a teaser for season 7.

After six seasons, the residents of the Enchanted Forest face their greatest challenge yet as The Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) and Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) join forces with a grown-up Henry Mills and his daughter Lucy on an epic quest to once again bring hope to their world and ours. Along the way, fairy tale characters new and old search for true love, find adventure and once again take sides in the struggle of good against evil, as classic tales are once more twisted and reimagined.

During the upfront presentation, a new tidbit was revealed.

On Tuesday afternoon at ABC’s Upfront presentation, ABC entertainment chief Channing Dungey touted Season 7 as a “reboot,” revealing that Hook, the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin “return but with new identities, in a new city, facing a new curse.”

Source: http://tvline.com/2017/05/16/once-upon- ... na-rumple/

“I do know that we’re playing sort of different characters,” Parrilla says. But as for details, “It’s all unknown.”

Source: http://tvline.com/2017/05/19/once-upon- ... character/

[unprincess]

^that last line is weird, what do they mean with new identities?

I'm happy they're leaving Storybrooke! It'll be interesting to see how regular people react to fairy-tale characters being real. Also it looks like we might get to see some of the lesser used characters again as well as new ones, good!

The Pied Piper doubled as Peter Pan in season 3 in the episode where he goes after Bae. Disney no longer has the rights to Tarzan which is also why they never acknowledge the film or character anymore. I'm assuming that means OUAT doesn't have the rights either. I know in Season 1, they didn't have the rights to Peter Pan or Robin Hood though, so maybe it doesn't work that way.

oh right I forgot about Peter being the Piper initially. Too bad about Tarzan, I think it would have worked well in the Land of Untold Stories even if just for a one episode thing like Herc & Meg.

[Sotiris]

The showrunners debunked the theories about Moana and Narnia.

Q: As soon as I saw the Polynesian mask on the portal door in the hat during the Once Upon a Time finale, I knew right away that Lucy’s mother will most likely be Moana.

A: Not so fast. “To examine those doors as clues to what season 7 would be is not necessarily what they were there for,” EP Adam Horowitz says. “It’s more of a symbolic thing that’s telling us how big our universe is and that there are many places left to be explored.” So, it’s probably unlikely, but never lose hope!

Source: http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/19/spoiler-roo ... ts-shield/

Q: I loved the Once Upon a Time season finale. Could they be doing Narnia next season? If not, I’m surprised by the name Lucy. But I could totally be reading too much into it.

A: Looks like you answered your own question at the end there, David. Matt Mitovich asked the Once creators if there is anything to be gleaned from the naming of Henry’s daughter, and they came back with a decisive “no.”

Source: http://tvline.com/2017/05/24/will-and-g ... -spoilers/

[blackcauldron85]

I watched the first and/or second episode of Season 1, but besides that, I had never seen another full episode, only periodically looking it up here/Youtube just out of curiousity's sake. (I get so confused about the 2 realms/time travel.) I had wanted to see the musical episode, though, so my dad recorded that, and he didn't end up watching that or the finale until today when I was there. (So I'm a little late to the game.)

Emma's "death" didn't make much sense to me either honestly. I'm not sure how her sacrifice of sorts was sort of a third way because technically one light would have been snuffed out (Emma) and the other light (Gideon) would have become corrupted. I didn't get how Rumple couldn't call off the attack either but I guess OUAT has never been consistent with their magic rules so whatever.

I agree-- way 1 would be Emma dies, way 2 would be Gideon dies, so I would think way 3 would be neither dies. Yay for love's true kiss on this episode x 2! And, with Gold in the cave (?) with Gideon's heart, I thought that he (after talking with Rumple) would bring the heart to save Gideon, put it in his chest or something?, and save both Gideon and Emma...I didn't get why he didn't, unless it was that he just couldn't not be evil? But he loves Belle and his son, so I still don't get why he would want his son to potentially die...

(I'm writing this as I read, so I just read this):

I thought he was going to let Emma die to set up the next season so I was quite impressed that he actually did the right thing.

Did I miss something, or did he still not give Gideon his heart back?

Maybe because Gideon had no agency or control over his actions, he wouldn't have become corrupted by killing Emma. So, the whole thing was more of a test for Emma than anything else. As for Rumple not being able to call off the attack, wasn't it because Fiona put a spell on the heart so no one else could control Gideon with it?

That makes sense.

And why couldn't Emma just have had an actual fight with the Black Fairy and she wins because she's so darn good at swordfighting and destined to win? Oh well, I guess what happened was natural. It seems she let herself be killed, so when Gideon killed her not of his own choosing, light didn't snuff out other light. I guess that makes sense.

I was wondering why, when Emma was saying to Fiona, "I'm going to kill you," and they had multiple moments of talking, I was just thinking, you had a few opportunities to try to kill each other- stop saying you're going to and do something about it. But I like your explanation, too, about the light snuffing (lol, reminds me of Yzma).

[Disney Duster]

Ha, yea, they said they would kill each other, but I suppose this show is about using kindness and sacrifice all the time to win.

Giving Gideon his heart back I am not sure would make the commands placed on it stop, so giving his heart back may not have fixed the problem, otherwise I bet the show creators would have done it. After Emma's sacrifice, I think that reset things. I mean Gideon became a baby again and everyone got a "fresh start" I guess. So his heart was probably magically put back when he became a baby.

Did you like the musical and finale episodes? I loved them both, but especially the musical one! Would you ever buy and watch all the other episodes? Honestly the only part of the show I didn't like was the first half of season 2.

[blackcauldron85]

Hi! Your reset theory makes sense, so Gideon should be a pure, non-evil baby. My dad (he's always watched the show)had to explain things to me (like why there were 2 Evil Queens)(and who is whose parents, etc)(and what characters have been seen before (like Tiger Lily, or who we now know is Henry's daughter), and some things I just didn't ask about because I didn't want to talk through the whole show! But the plan was for us to watch just the musical episode, and my dad would watch the finale later, but I wanted to see what happened in the finale, so yeah, I liked it. If it weren't for the different realms/time travel, then I'd like the show more...but I don't dislike it. I will never not be upset that Belle is married to Gold/Rumple (but my dad is like "Rumple IS the beast!" and I'm like, "then where is his enchanted castle!" So the Disney Animation purist in me will always gripe about those things, but I'd be more open to seeing more episodes now.

[Disney Duster]

Oh, good, I'm glad you liked what you saw! And I'm glad you asked questions to get explained to you and learn more about it. I did at first hate them changing how the fairy tales (and Disney stories) went, but now I get that these stories were meant to be changed drastically with twists and not meant to be how the actual stories went (even though they are supposed to be their version of how the stories "really went!", but you know, just for a show).

[blackcauldron85]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been bothered by that! My dad even said that I'd be a good person to watch the show, because I know the backstories, but I said something like, "you mean the backstories they don't use and change...?"

[Disney Duster]

Omg lol!!!! To be honest, I'm okay with them messing with the backstories because they just threw everything out the window and I get it's all supposed to be their idea of the real versions of the stories, so, I just say whatever knowing the real fairy tales or books or other stories are the real stories.

[Sotiris]

The showrunners talk about the use of flashbacks in season 7.

Q: Will the flashbacks on Once Upon a Time next season show what’s happened over the last decade?

A: I’d put good money on the flashbacks filling in some of those blanks, but considering several of the characters that will be returning — Hook and Rumple, among them — have been around for quite a long time, the series could potentially flash back even further than that. “That’s one of the great advantages of having characters who can be hundreds of years old, we can span different eras and do many different things,” EP Adam Horowitz says.

Source: http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/09/spoiler-roo ... ii-five-0/

[Disney's Divinity]

So basically whatever they want like usual. I think it's best if there aren't too many flashbacks between the 6 finale and the present in 7 since Snow, Emma, etc. will be absent.

[Sotiris]

The showrunners said the absences of Snow, Charming, Belle, and Zelena in the new season will be addressed.

Q: Will the season premiere of Once Upon a Time explain the absences of departed cast members like Snow, Charming, Emma, Belle and Zelena?

A: Just because we’re likely not going to see certain people (very much or at all) next season does not mean we won’t hear about them. It’s “absolutely” the plan to find out what’s going on with them, according to EP Edward Kitsis. EP Adam Horowitz adds: “Yeah, we fully intend on that.” So at least there’s that.

Source: http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/30/spoiler-roo ... upon-time/

[Sotiris]

New cast has been announced.

Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice), Adelaide Kane (Reign), Dania Ramirez (Devious Maids), Mekia Cox (Chicago Med), and Rose Reynolds (Poldark) are joining the cast of the ABC fairy tale series, EW has confirmed. Details on their roles are being kept under wraps, but both Anwar and Ramirez will be series regulars, while the other trio will recur.

Source: http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/06/once-upon-t ... -new-cast/

[Disney's Divinity]

All women.... Weird. I've only seen the first two seasons of Devious Maids, but I know Dania Ramirez was an atrocious actress.

[unprincess]

Ive seen a bit of Poldark, was Reynolds the redhead who married the MC?

[Khonnor]

All women.... Weird. I've only seen the first two seasons of Devious Maids, but I know Dania Ramirez was an atrocious actress.

She was our favorite from that show!

[Sotiris]

“Once Upon a Time” Turns the Page at D23 Expo
http://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles ... -d23-expo/