ABC and Fox recovered some (but not all) of last week's losses vs. the Grammy Awards, but interestingly Once Upon A Time which held up relatively well last week against the Grammy's was not up this week. But Once Upon A Time was the night's top-rated show with adults 18-49 with a 3.0 rating
ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos and the aforementioned Once Upon A Time were flat vs. last week. Desperate Housewives recovered 22%. Pan Am was up 71% to a still paltry 1.2 adults 18-49 rating in what was no doubt its series finale.
Once Upon a Time hits a high note Composer Mark Isham uses his imagination to come up with music for modern fairy tale
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He was one of the original recording artists for the 1980s new age music label Windham Hill. As a child growing up in New York City, he was captivated by the music of Miles Davis, and learned to play the flugelhorn at a young age. He won a Grammy Award for his self-titled album Mark Isham in 1990, and went on to score the background music for the feature films Never Cry Wolf, Alan Rudolph’s The Moderns, Carroll Ballard’s Fly Away Home, Michael Apted’s Nell, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs, Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate and, for London, Ont. filmmaker Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning Crash and In the Valley of Elah.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film score for Redford’s A River Runs Through It. He has scored the background music for 10 feature films in the last three years, including Fame, Crossing Over, Dolphin Tale and The Secret Life of Bees.
The last thing Mark Isham expected, or wanted, was to commit himself to the onerous task of scoring the background music for a full-blown TV series, with its demands and time constraints. The rigours of juggling a film career and jazz tours with a TV series — 22 hour-long episodes over an eight-month period — can wear on any composer. Many film composers compose the title themes of hit TV shows, but relatively few commit to the actual series itself.
When Isham saw early, unfinished scenes of Once Upon a Time, though, the heady, intoxicating fantasy drama about fairy tale characters trapped in a timeless limbo between their fairy tale pasts and a present-day small town in New England, he was floored.
Once Upon a Time, with its larger-than-life characters and themes of love, loss and longing touched a nerve in Isham, a nerve he hadn’t felt since the early 1990s, when he penned the background music for a series of children’s albums, Rabbit Ears Storybook Classics, children’s’ tales narrated by such film luminaries as Susan Sarandon, Kelly McGillis, Sir John Gielgud, Glenn Close, William Hurt and Jeremy Irons.
Isham considers the music for those albums — The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Thumbelina, The Emperor and the Nightingale, The Boy Who Drew Cats and more — to be among his finest work. The makers of Once Upon a Time could not know it, but the moment Isham saw Once Upon a Time’s impressionistic tale of an ill-fated princess, a charming prince and a curse designed to keep them forever apart, he saw his own music destiny.
Once Upon a Time, a modern-day fairy tale created by Lost writers Ed Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, is network television’s most-watched new drama, and is now airing overseas.
An extended play album of four tracks of Isham’s music has just been released on the U.S. iTunes service and at ABC.com; a full-length album will be released later this spring, in Canada as well as the U.S. Once Upon a Time debuted last October on a wing and a prayer, but now looks as if it will be around for a long time.
Isham is fine with that, he said on the phone from his Los Angeles studio, even if it cuts into his touring schedule and film work. Isham was last in Vancouver, home of Once Upon a Time’s set, for the Vancouver Jazz Festival, but ironically has never been on the series’ set.
“Vancouver has a vibrant music scene, and I’ve always enjoyed playing there,” he said. “It’s always struck me as being more of a European city, with the influences of different languages and cultures, especially for someone like me, who spends so much time in Southern California. I’ve always enjoyed going there. I’ve never been to the set, though.”
Isham composes the music for Once Upon a Time from his studio in Los Angeles. He taps his imagination to fill in the emotional blanks, much as he did with Storybook Classics.
“These are iconic images driving all these stories. There’s real power there. It goes back to the basics of storytelling and the first stories we all learned as children.”
Isham had little hesitation about composing for the small screen, even if the music may sound tinny through a tiny TV speaker. Today’s high-fidelity sound equipment and breakthroughs in digital engineering mean that, often, “the quality’s pretty high.” Home entertainment technology has advanced to the point where the TV experience in many homes can compete with anything on the big screen.
That said, it can be a great mistake for a film composer — or any composer — to think purely in terms of technology. Music is about the emotional experience, not the quality of sound.
Isham prefers, too, not to overwhelm an emotional scene with music. A good film score is most effective, he believes, when it’s subtle and underplayed. Once Upon a Time, with its eye-filling visuals and emotional crescendos, requires constant vigilance and self-discipline. It’s part of the challenge, and one of the things that drew Isham to the material. Music can add much to something that is beautiful to begin with, but it takes an innate awareness to know when to hold back. The conundrum of composing for the screen — whether it’s for film or TV — is that the music shouldn’t be noticed at the time, no matter how good it is. If you notice the music, that means you’re not following the story.
The trick is to compose music that fits the material but also stands on its own as a recording, separate from the film. Isham says he prefers to compose for the characters, not specific scenes. He made a conscious choice to use a traditional orchestra over synthesizer, though he has used both in his film career. Never Cry Wolf, Nell and Crash were synthesizer scores; his Oscar-nominated score for A River Runs Through It and the recent Dolphin Tale were orchestral.
For Once Upon a Time, Isham prefers an orchestra because a symphony orchestra’s warm, vibrant, natural tones are better suited to Time’s big, bold, romantic themes.
Isham was aware, when he agreed to take on the job, that the odds were stacked against Once Upon a Time’s survival. Few new series succeed, even fewer become hits.
He didn’t mind, though. The story, and the way Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz told that story, was all that mattered to him.
“I long ago gave up trying to predict popular tastes,” Isham said. “I stopped thinking about whether something would be a success or not. I know that when I read the script, I thought, ‘Well, even if people decide they don’t want to watch it, even if it falls apart and goes down and is not as successful as we’d all like it to be, at least I will have taken on this challenge and tested myself and seen what I can do to make this as good as I possibly can.’ It’s all about risk taking.
“And quite frankly, I knew that Ed and Adam had been a big part of Lost. And Lost succeeded, despite the risks. For me, the challenge alone made it worthwhile. But then, when I saw what Ed and Adam came up with, and when I see what comes out from the actors and writers every week, it makes my task easy.”
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays on CTV at 7 ET/PT, ABC at 8 ET/PT. It returns March 4, following this weekend’s pre-emption for the Academy Awards.
Because of the Oscars airing this Sunday, ABC’s Once Upon A Time doesn’t return with new episodes until Sunday, March 5… but if you can’t wait that long, here are some details to tide you over!
KSiteTV’s Craig Byrne attended a journalist Q&A with Executive Producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis this morning, and you’ll surely be reading about it here and on several other media outlets. We’ll also have some more details here in within the next 11 days, before the show returns. But first… you all want some scoop… right? So what is coming next?
When Once left off, it appeared that David’s wife Kathryn disappeared in Storybrooke, and Horowitz promises that it’s a mystery that will be resolved this season. The disappearance will put yet another challenge to the romance between David and Mary-Margaret, who, of course, are Prince Charming and Snow White in the fairy tale world.
“David and Mary-Margaret are really fighting a curse to be together, and this is just another element in that,” Horowitz says. Kitsis adds that this challenge “will definitely test them.” But for the Charmers who want to see more of Charming and Snow, will there be any luck?
“We do have a plan for them,” Adam Horowitz says. “We are building to something this season with them, that we’re excited to share with you, just not today, but yeah, there is a plan and there is a definite build that we’re trying to do, and we hope people enjoy where we take them.”
“The whole idea of the show is that Storybrooke is cursed, and therefore, the love is so strong, it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try to keep them apart, but of course the curse has to keep them apart,” Edward Kitsis adds. “One of our favorite things is the fact that I love that the audience is mad that David cheated. But he’s married to Snow White! And in Storybrooke, he has all of this guilt of cheating on Kathryn, but the truth is, that’s the curse,” he says.
“Is he cheating on Snow White by being with Kathryn?” Adam asks. “There’s a complexity that we’re trying to build with with these relationships, and making nothing easy for our characters, so that when they do achieve the things they want to achieve, it’s all the more satisfying, hopefully.”
Other scoops to come out of the Q&A:
- “What we saw August doing with putting the pages in the [Once Upon A Time fairy tale] book is kind of the first step in pulling back the onion on who this guy is and what his agenda in Storybrooke is,” Adam said about the “mysterious stranger” August, adding that August’s goal will be known “very shortly.” As for the book itself, Kitsis tells us “who wrote it and those questions will be more for Season 2.”
- Episode 16 takes place after Snow has lost her memories; a sequence in 15 takes place *before* then.
- In Episode 17, Sebastian Stan will play the Mad Hatter, and we’ll see how the Mad Hatter became mad. The caterpillar will be played by Roger Daltrey of The Who. “We kind of do our Once twist on it,” Adam says.
- Episode 18, we’ll see why the Evil Queen hates Snow White so much. Barbara Hershey guest stars.
- We’ll be learning more about the backstory of Rumplestiltskin and his son in Episode 19.
- The producers would like to have Jamie Dornan back to the series, but it is all dependent on scheduling.
Once Upon a Time Bosses Dish on "Mad" Guest Stars, David and Mary Margaret's Future and More!
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It's a mad, mad world!
Well, it's about to be one on Once Upon a Time, at least! ABC's hit series will take on Alice in Wonderland in an upcoming episode and have recruited a Captain America star to don a very special hat. Creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz sat down with reporters this morning (and supplied bagels! 10 seasons and a movie!) to discuss the show's upcoming (epic) roster of guest stars.
Plus, what's ahead for David (Josh Dallas) and Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin)? Here's what we can tell you...
Guest Stars Galore! Gossip Girl bad boy Sebastian Stan is set to guest star in the show's 17th episode, which takes place in Wonderland. Yeah, that Wonderland. Stan's role? Why, the Mad Hatter of course! "We find out how the Mad Hatter became mad," Kitsis teases. "Sebastian is so good in this role," he adds. "He's brilliant." So how will this Wonderland be different from what we already know? "The first [difference] you'll notice is in who the Mad Hatter was and his backstory. Then what Wonderland is and [its] changes is something we hope to explore also," Kitsis says. "We're hoping this tells you the story of the Mad Hatter, but will also leave you questions about Wonderland."
Vampire Diaries and Alias star David Anders will also return later this season as the nefarious Dr. Whale, but his fairy-tale counterpart will not be revealed this season. His Alias costar (and Dollhouse and Angel actress) Amy Acker makes her OUAT debut in episode 14. "She is going to help tell the story of how Grumpy became Grumpy," Kitsis says of Acker's fairy character, Nova.
Don't worry, we didn't forget about Belle (Emilie de Ravin), whose Storybrooke self is currently sittin' pretty in a secret padded cell. "She has a nice little scene in 14," Kitsis teases. "She's sitting up there with the person who loves her, not realizing it, and that would be someone I would not want to piss off," Kitsis says. Still, fans will have to wait a little longer for answers regarding Belle. "She's going to be back probably more toward the end of the season," Kitsis says.
Finally, Barbara Hershey will guest star as Regina/the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) mother. Of her character, Kitsis would only say, "Evil is not born, it's made. Her mother has a specific viewpoint about the world." Horowitz adds, "Hopefully you'll get a great insight into Regina and why she is the way she is."
True Love Is Tough: The disappearance of David's wife Kathryn (Anastasia Griffith) will throw a major wrench into his romance with Mary Margaret, with Kitsis saying, "This will definitely test them." Horowitz adds, "David and Mary Margaret are really fighting a curse to be together and this is just another element of that." Kathryn's disappearance will be a major plotline through the next four or five episodes that's going to take us "towards the mid-end season," Horowitz says.
Fret not, David and Mary Margaret fans! While it may seem that the obstacles the adorable couple must overcome are endless, Horowitz says, "We are building to something this season with them that we're excited to share. There is a plan." Kitsis adds, "Their love is so strong that it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try and keep them apart."
True love's kiss has been known to break a curse or two on the show, so why didn't David and Mary Margaret's first kiss free them from Regina's spell? "I think that when David and Mary Margaret kiss, it wasn't an "Aha!' moment for them because the curse hasn't been broken yet and clearly they're not the keys to breaking it, they're just the keys to making the savior," Kitsis explains.
Backstory Glory: We all know how much the Evil Queen hates Snow White, but we don't know why. Kitsis and Horowitz say viewers will finally learn what Snow White did to the Evil Queen in episode 18. Episode 19 will reveal more about Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and his relationship with his son. As for Henry's (Jared Gilmore) father, don't expect to find out his identity anytime soon, though the executive producers know who it is. Oh, and the Big Bad Wolf will be revealed in episode 15. No big deal, right?
@girlgoneveggie: Any scoop on Once Upon a Time? Not having a new episode to look forward to this Sunday makes me sad.
You think you’re a little down? Well, prepare for major fallout after Kathryn’s (Anastasia Griffith) disappearance, like our dear Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) being arrested by her own daughter Emma (Jennifer Morrison) kind of major. And wait, it gets even better! Guess who’s going to be representing Mary Margaret in court? Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle)! This should end well…
OUAT's Paleyfest Panel will be on March 4 and available for stream on Hulu beginning with March 15.
Think Barbara Hershey was scary as the psycho mother of Natalie Portman in Black Swan? Just wait until you catch her debut as Cora, the mother of the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), on the April 8 episode of ABC's Once Upon a Time.
"Girls say they'll never grow up to be like their mothers, but evil comes from somewhere," says executive producer Edward Kitsis. "Cora would look at the mother from Black Swan and think she was weak."
During Barbara's multi-episode arc, the series will flash back to show Snow White as a little girl and the Evil Queen as a young princess living with her fairy-tale family before her heart turned bitter cold. "You will finally find out why the Evil Queen hates Snow White," hints executive producer Adam Horowitz.
Adds Edward, Cora has "an interesting connection to Rumpelstiltskin and an agenda she does not like to veer from." Her past "is just hinted at this year," he says. "But we have major plans for Cora in the future."
Spoiler Chat Daily: More Deaths Coming to Revenge? Plus Scoop on Community, Once Upon a Time and More
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VeroPadilla34: OUAT! Just need some type of fix!
How about a ridiculously good-looking, charming and Irish fix?! The ABC hit series is currently trying to figure out a way to have fan favorite Sheriff Graham/Huntsman (Jamie Dornan) return. "To be quite honest, I hope so," executive producer Edward Kitsis says of Dornan appearing in a future episode. "We would like to have him back. Sometimes it is a scheduling thing that is beyond our control, but right now we are trying to move heaven and earth to hopefully make it happen. I can't you promise you." Eh, we're still going to hold you to that non-promise, Kitsis!
Once Upon a Time | During a confab with the series’ creators, we asked why, when Mary Margaret and David finally shared a smooch some weeks ago, it wasn’t a grand moment of enlightenment a la when Sideways Sawyer and Juliet touched hands. Edward Kitsis answered, “It wasn’t an ‘a-ha’ moment for them because the curse hasn’t been broken yet — and clearly they’re not the keys to breaking it. They were just the keys to making the savior.” So, maybe that savior – aka Emma – is the one who needs to sh
are “true love’s first kiss” to start unraveling the queen’s curse? “That is an interesting question,” Kitsis allowed. “Unfortunately, Kathryn’s disappearance is going to take up a lot of Emma’s time,” meaning no lives-changing romance for the sexy sheriff just yet.
After Emma is forced to arrest Mary Margaret for the murder of David's wife, Mary Margaret hires Mr. Gold as her attorney; Snow White continues to be affected by Rumplestiltskin's potion.
NATALIE: Now that Regina has discovered that Mr. Gold knows the truth about the curse, "their relationship is definitely going to change," executive producer Edward Kitsis says, noting that both their motives will become clear in the coming episodes. Lest we forget, Rumplestiltskin did create the curse that the Evil Queen unleashed. "The question that I would ask is: Why would somebody create a curse that they didn't themselves employ and for what reason? That is a question we're going to answer this year," he says.
Question: I have fallen in love with Once Upon a Time. Anything on Rumpelstiltskin (Mr. Gold)? —Becca
Ausiello: And how. Although series co-creators Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz won’t quite come out and say he isn’t as bad a guy as we think, the former does allow that “he’s a complicated man, [and how you view him] depends where you line up with his interests. [It’s always a question of] whether you’re in the way of that agenda or not.” Adds Horowitz: “There’s more to come this season” — in particular, in Episode 19 — “about him and his son and what happened there that may, hopefully, shed a little more light.” And yes, there is some light in him. “A lot of these characters have grey areas,” Kitsis reminds. “There’s some humanity in him.”
Sebastian Stan is diving down the rabbit hole on Once Upon a Time and TVGuide.com has the first look at his turn as Alice and Wonderland's Mad Hatter.
As TVGuide.com first reported, the Captain America and Gossip Girl alum will guest-star on the ABC fairy tale drama. He'll appear in the Wonderland-themed episode "Hat Trick," airing March 25, in which we'll learn how the Mad Hatter became mad.
Check out the Mad Hatter's transition into insanity, and see if you can find the major Wonderland Easter egg:
Spoiler Alert! ONCE UPON A TIME Co-Creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz Tackle Your Burning Questions
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Move over Wisteria Lane, forget you Sunnydale, America has a new address for maddeningly addictive small screen entertainment and its name is Storybrooke. A quirky little town whose denizens — including but not limited to a malevolent mayor, a smarter than your average sheriff and wise beyond her years school teacher — may not be exactly whom they appear to be. Which is precisely why theTVaddict.com was thrilled to be among a select handful of TV types invited to chat with the architects of this little town… little quiet village if you will… to get to the bottom of things. What follows, are 10 answers to burning questions from creator and executive producers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.
First of all, can you talk about the whole Kathryn missing thing? Might she be in a cell next to Belle in Storybrooke?
EDDY: Kathryn? We can talk about it: it’s “the mystery.”
ADAM: It is the mystery and it is one that is resolved this season.
EDDY: It is the arc that we’re kind of going into that’s going to sort of take us into the end-run of the season.
ADAM: Yeah, towards the mid-end season. But it’s one of those things, David and Mary-Margaret are really fighting the curse to be together and this is just another element in that.
EDDY: I think this will definitely test them.
You keep having Mary-Margaret and David get together only to break up. I know that you need to sustain a series, but do you have a plan for them?
ADAM: We do have a plan for them. We are building to something this season that we are excited to share with you, just not today. But there is a plan and we have a build up that we’re trying to do and we hope people enjoy where we take them.
EDDY: The thing is, the whole story of the show is that Storybrooke is cursed and therefore what we love is that their love is so strong it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try to keep them apart. But, of course, the curse has to keep them apart. One of our favorite things is the fact that the audience is mad that David cheated. But he’s married to Snow White, and in Storybrooke he has all this guilt about cheating on Kathryn, but the truth is that’s the curse.
ADAM: Right, and is he cheating on Snow White by being with Kathryn. So to us there is a level of complexity that we’re trying to build with — with these relationship and making it so that nothing’s easy for our characters, so that when they do achieve what we want them to achieve, it’s all the more satisfying. Hopefully.
Now that Henry’s book is back, will there be changes because the book is back and pages have been returned? And how is that going to change things moving forward?
EDDY: I think when we reveal that episode, which will be later in the season, it will shine and inform who the Stranger is. So those pages are sort of his story, you’d say.
ADAM: I’d say what we saw August doing in that episode with putting the pages in the book is the first step in kind of pulling back the onion on who this guy is and what his agenda in Storybrooke is. That’s coming over the next run of episodes.
Is the relationship between Regina and Mr. Gold going to change now that she knows that he knows?
EDDY: I’d say that their relationship is definitely going to change. You’ve got two very untrustworthy people. I think the thing that will be interesting over the next arc of the episodes is “what the hell are they both up to?” And really, what’s Mr. Gold up to?
ADAM: And for us, there’s now the fun of playing them off as people who know each other and know their long history together.
EDDY: The question that I think people forget is in Episode 2, is when the Evil Queen was having trouble enacting the curse, she went to the person who made it, which was Mr. Gold. So the question that I would ask is: why would somebody create a curse that they themselves did not employ and for what reason? And that is a question that we are going to answer this year.
What can you say about the return of Belle?
ADAM: It’s awesome! We’re excited for it. We love, love Emilie so much. We love what she’s done with the character and we’re excited to show you so more with her and there’s more this season.
EDDY: Yeah, she’s got a nice little scene in Episode 14. She’s sitting up there with the person that loves her not realizing it and that would not be someone I’d want to piss off.
In the episode coming up, it seemed like August woke something up in Ruby, if not memories of the past but all she’s ever known is to work at this shop. Might that be August’s doing in Storybrooke? To help people wake up?
ADAM: August’s goal in Storybrooke is one that is going to be revealed very clearly, very shortly. It’s a very specific goal.
EDDY: But I think the question is — it’s kind of like what Henry said in Episode 2: “it’s magic, people don’t remember.” So when you say to Ruby, “How long have you worked at Granny’s?” She’s like, “Forever.” It is because she has no conception of time. But once someone puts it in her head that, “So why do you?” She’s like, “Why do I?”
ADAM: It’s a snowball-effect. Which is to say that Emma arrived in the pilot, the clock started ticking and things started to change. One of the changes was August arriving. There’s a lot of things that have changed in Storybrooke and they have kind of mushroomed-out to what you saw with Ruby at the start of Episode 15, and those effects will continue.
Is Regina now seeing the backlash, like when she enacted the curse she never thought it would actually be her worst nightmare and she hasn’t quite woken up to that fact yet?
EDDY: I think when she enacted it, she enacted it from such an emotional place that she wasn’t thinking clearly, and then she came here and she probably got a little bit bored — and now that Emma’s here, it’s kind of reawakened her passion of revenge and anger. But she’s protecting her son and I think she doesn’t fully understand what she did and I don’t think she understands the repercussions, and I think she’s beginning to lose sight to even why she did it.
About Emma, when we first meet her in the pilot, we see her in the real world doing her job. But now she’s gotten very entrenched in Storybrooke and there doesn’t seem to be any repercussions that she left that life, but does that ever come back into play where she thinks about her life outside of Storybrooke?
ADAM: She definitely thinks about her life outside of Storybrooke, but one of the things about Emma is that a lot of the show for her is about the fact that this is a character who has never had a home, and never really stayed in one place. So that’s something she’s struggling with.
EDDY: What we designed her as is a character looking for home, but since she’s never had one, she doesn’t know what it is when she finds it. So every 2 years she kind of moves and she doesn’t get attached to anything, and she doesn’t get attached to anything because then she can’t be hurt. I think what happens this year is people start to attack that: first, Henry; then Mary-Margaret becomes her first real friend, even though it’s her mom. So I think that she is going to find herself emotionally attached to people and that’s going to freak her out.
Will Henry’s father ever come into play? Is that something you want to do now or somewhere down the line?
ADAM: Further down the line definitely.
EDDY: We could tell you we know who he is.
ADAM: We have a very specific plan for that character.
What can you tell us about where this season is sort of charging towards? Will it be a big cliff-hanger?
ADAM: What we can say without giving away stuff we don’t want to give away is that a lot of the things that we set up in the pilot and the early episodes are things that kind of come to a boil at the end of this season.
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Spoilers and other tidbits from Once Upon a Time Paley Fest 2012:
future therapy sessions with David and Mr. Gold with Archie Hopper
we will find out in about a month or so why the Evil Queen hates Snow White so much, and Ginnifer says that it makes sense
we will see Jiminy Cricket again
the Kathryn situation will take a while to resolve, but afterward, there will be another major obstacle for David and Mary Margaret
the writers would love to bring Ariel (and Rapunzel) in, but it would be more around season 2 (and Lana would like to turn to Ursula)
during the glass coffin scene, the lid was actually CGI (because the glass was fogging up), but it started snowing; so they had problems with Ginny flinching
Edward Kitsis says that even though Graham got his heart ripped out in Storybrooke, he is still very much alive in the fairytale world so don’t give up hope on Jamie Dornan coming back
Jennifer Morrison, if given a choice, would play Prince Charming; Josh Dallas would play Rumpel (his first choice was Jack and the Beanstalk, but they clarified that the question was about a character already in the show); Ginny would play Henry (since she could come in as herself); Raphael would play the Evil Queen
it takes Henry up to this point to realize that time is frozen because people look the same age to you for a while when you’re a kid; and in Storybrooke, before Emma arrived, the only person aging was Henry
a grandmother thanks Josh Dallas for helping her 12-year-old daughter move on from Justin Bieber
Jennifer Morrison’s favorite scene was her last scene with Jamie Dornan when he dies (and she really wants to ride a horse)
Lana likes working with everyone, especially with the children since it brings out a different side of the Evil Queen; and she recently got to ride a horse
Jennifer doesn’t know when she’ll wear a dress next, but she and Josh joked about how she should wear a leather dress “just like her dad”
it takes Robert hours to put on and take off the Rumpelstiltskin costume and make up (20 minutes to lace up the boots alone!)
Lana loves her Evil Queen costumes and notes that they are getting larger every episode
Robert’s inspiration for Rumpel’s voice comes from 3 areas: 1) work he did with masks when studying acting, 2) Italian commedia dell’arte, and 3) his son, who apparently goes around babbling and gesturing
there is a reason why Mary Margaret and David’s kisses are not breaking the curse, and Ginny and Josh had asked the writers why it didn’t; they won’t say why it is, but it was so obvious that it made Ginny feel like a “dum dum”; Jennifer joked that Emma will set up a kissing booth
after working on the green screen stage for a long time, you start seeing orange everywhere (since that’s the opposite color)
ABC won the night with adults 18-49 and CBS won with total viewers. ABC's Once Upon A Time was up three tenths from its last outing to a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating. Desperate Housewives was also up three tenths to a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating. ABC's GCB premiered to a modest 2.2 adults 18-49 rating and 7.6 million viewers. That's much better than the finale of 'Pan Am' which drew a mere 1.2 adults 18-49 rating and 3.77 million viewers, but much lower than Pan Am's premiere last September that drew a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating and over 11 million viewers.
Once Upon a Time's Mama Drama: Will Emma Finally Learn the Truth?
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Dealing with family can often be challenging, but in the world of Once Upon a Time, the element of magic has made the family dynamic even more complicated.
Jennifer Morrison's down-to-earth Emma had previously lived a rootless existence, but now she's decided to stay in Storybrooke long-term, and her presence has begun to chip away at the curse the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) had unleashed on the town. While this has caused the residents to see changes in their lives that have put them on the path to learning their true fairy tale identities, Emma is also undergoing her own transformation. Although she's currently unaware that the alter ego of her roommate Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) is actually both her mother and Snow White, living with her has made an impact.
"In the beginning of the year, Emma was a person with walls up, who didn't let anyone in," executive producer Edward Kitsis tells TVGuide.com. "We always said she's a character looking for home, but she doesn't know where that is because she's never experienced it. Now, through the year, we've seen Henry [Jared Gilmore] and Mary Margaret poking at that wall. Underneath that wall is the role of being a savior, and who wants the job of saving everybody when you can't save yourself?"
Though Emma has been mainly working to uncover the true motives of the mayor Regina -- who is in fact the Evil Queen and therefore Mary Margaret's stepmother -- as the series heads towards its first season finale, Emma's emotional journey will come back into focus. "She's going to have to make a decision what she wants out of her life, if she wants to stay in this town and what her role in this town is going to be," executive producer Steve Pearlman says.
In particular, the upcoming Wonderland-themed episode on March 25 will mark a turning point for Emma in whether she truly believes in the curse or not. "She obviously doesn't believe in any of this, but now there's been enough people who have said enough things that there's enough cracks for her to start to figure out that something is going on," Morrison says. "She's slowly, but surely broken down to possibly believe."
Believing that the curse is real, and that the Storybrooke residents are actually fairy tale characters, means that Emma will have to accept that her new best friend, Mary Margaret, is actually her mother, whose actual identity is also Snow White — both of which the roommates often joke about in passing. "Ultimately, there's going to be a point where that has to happen," Morrison says. "I think we're headed toward those worlds having to be exposed in some way. Emma can't be skeptical for six years."
As Emma continues to butt heads with Regina, the producers plan to juxtapose their often hostile relationship with that of Snow White and the Evil Queen. "The parallels between all those characters, and the fact that they're all one big dysfunctional, twisted family is something we're playing into in a big way," executive producer Adam Horowitz says.
Those parallels will play heavy into an early April episode, where the audience will finally learn the catalyst of the Evil Queen's hatred for Snow White, which ultimately lead to the curse. To tease the upcoming reveal, Kitsis asked fans to ponder this: "Why was the Evil Queen so unhappy at their wedding? Why did her very wedding make her so upset?" Adds Horowitz: "True love seems to piss off the Evil Queen, why is that?"
"It's a real gift to the audience that we're going to tell that story this season," Goodwin notes. "It's a very important piece of the puzzle, and folks will sympathize with the Evil Queen in ways they're not expecting."
As TVGuide.com previously reported, that episode will flash back to a young Evil Queen — and a young Snow White not played by Goodwin — and the Queen's own mother, Cora (Barbara Hershey). "Cora helps me understand Regina more because the way Regina is with Henry — we see that she loves her son, maybe not in the healthiest way, but she does and that's very similar to how Cora loves Regina," says Parrilla, who also teases that we may see more heart-crushing before the season is up. "Cora loves her daughter, but she wants the best for her and she controls and manipulates the situation in the same ways that Regina does with Henry."
While Parrilla was shy to say whether Regina might ultimately change her mind about the curse, she noted, "There are some concerns and questions around the curse that you'll see, like, who really made that curse and what was in that curse?"
Still, the curse may be affected in other ways as the producers plan to call back to the premiere's pivotal clock-ticking moment in the finale. "It's huge," Pearlman says of the season-ender. "It's quite large in typical Lost fashion. With Emma coming to town in the pilot, she got the clock to start ticking, which started to affect everybody in the town in different ways. In the season finale, there will be something that will happen that will affect everybody in the town."