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shadowkatFound this tid-bit which answers various questions. For example? The events in Wonderland were before this season of OUAT, and the authors have an end-game. They've actually plotted the whole series out ahead of time, where each season is headed and what the very end of it will be.
Go here for full article: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/31/once-upon-time-hot-seat-spoilers/
Okay these two aren't spoilery at all :
Is there going to be a major character death this season?
Kitsis: I hope so.
Seriously? What is it with these bloodthirsty television writers and character deaths.
I got news for you - it doesn't make the series more gripping, or more realistic.
Earn the dang deaths. Oh well, at least on this show - people don't come back from the dead, unlike some superhero/gothic vampire/and daytime serials I won't mention.
In addition - why do the writers always resurrect the villains but permanently kill off the nice guys (note not the heroes, I mean characters like Tara.)
Do you have your series end game planned?
Kitsis: Yes. We have had our series end game from when we created the series. We have a road map, and we’ve allowed ourselves a lot of freedom, but it was never our intention to say, “Here’s exactly what we’re going to do.” But we know where we’re leading to.
Horowitz: And if you’re asking whether we know what we’d like the last moment of the series to be, yes, we do.
Hmm...I'm not sure if this a good thing or a bad thing. TV is hard to plan effectively ahead of time, due to the fickleness of networks and audiences. There's no guarantees - just as the creators of Babylon 5 and Farscape - who did the same thing. On the other hand, Lost and BSG were flying by the skin of their teeth for a bit there, and realized oops we really should put together an end game. But there was Breaking Bad - which according to its creator did not have a clear plan in place, just a general idea - ie, Walt would die at the end, and it would be sort of Macbethian.
Go here for full article: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/31/once-upon-time-hot-seat-spoilers/
Is Rumple’s (Robert Carlyle) behavior this season in any way related to his resurrection from the vault of the Dark One?
Kitsis: Absolutely, it is related to that. It is related to the fact that all of last season, he was a slave to the dagger under the control of the Wicked Witch (Rebecca Mader), thus reminding him how precious his life is. And it is related to this hat and what it can do for him. He is a man who has always chosen power over love, but this hat is a tantalizing thing for him that he thought he never thought he would be able to achieve. When he finds the hat in the premiere, you realize why he had to wake up in the middle of the night and do it, even though he just made a big declaration to be on the straight and narrow. For us, it was: What is this object? What is so important that would make him break that code literally the same night? It’s based on all these things we’ve just talked about.
Could the Sorcerer’s hat ever be powerful enough to rewrite fate?
Horowitz: That’s a great question. Maybe.
Will we find out the significance of the honeymoon house and why Belle (Emilie de Ravin) found it?
Horowitz and Kitsis: Yes.
Outside of Sunday’s Belle-centric episode, will we see her mother (Frances O’Connor) again down the line?
Kitsis: Maybe.
Does Once’s current timeline take place after the events of Wonderland?
Horowitz: Yes.
Will we see the Red Queen (Emma Rigby) this season?
Kitsis: We’re going to try.
Will we see more of the missing year?
Horowitz: Yes.
Kitsis: But it may not be this season.
Will we ever see the repercussions of Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Charming (Josh Dallas) sharing a heart?
Horowitz and Kitsis: Yes.
Will we find out if baby Neal has special powers, too?
Horowitz and Kitsis: Yes.
Will we ever see the Swan family and why they gave Emma back?
Kitsis: Potentially. Maybe.
Horowitz: More of Emma’s past is in the cards.
Will Emma and Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) take their relationship to the next level this season?
Horowitz: If by next level you mean going from Netflix to Hulu Plus, possibly.
Kitsis: Yes.
[It would be nice, considering to date the only who has gotten to have a pseudo sex scene is Regina, well and the Charmings. I don't understand why these tv shows have issues with sex but none with graphic violence. But then I don't understand why parents have issues with graphic or explicit sex but none with graphic/explicit violence. Perhaps someone candefendexplain this to me? Is it our weird puritanical and insanely violence obsessed culture? I don't get it.]
Will we ever see what dirty work Hook used to do for Peter Pan (Robbie Kay)?
Kitsis: Maybe.
Will we see Tinker Bell (Rose McIver) again?
Kitsis: Depends on her schedule.
Horowitz: We hope so.
Kitsis: She is the lead of her own show [The CW’s midseason entry iZombie], in which she’s in every scene. So although she is in the same city that we shoot, it’s very hard for her to have free time, but as soon as she does, we’ll put her back in her green outfit.
Will we see other villains besides Maleficent (Kristin Bauer van Straten) in the second half of the season?
Horowitz: I sure hope so.
Okay these two aren't spoilery at all :
Is there going to be a major character death this season?
Kitsis: I hope so.
Seriously? What is it with these bloodthirsty television writers and character deaths.
I got news for you - it doesn't make the series more gripping, or more realistic.
Earn the dang deaths. Oh well, at least on this show - people don't come back from the dead, unlike some superhero/gothic vampire/and daytime serials I won't mention.
In addition - why do the writers always resurrect the villains but permanently kill off the nice guys (note not the heroes, I mean characters like Tara.)
Do you have your series end game planned?
Kitsis: Yes. We have had our series end game from when we created the series. We have a road map, and we’ve allowed ourselves a lot of freedom, but it was never our intention to say, “Here’s exactly what we’re going to do.” But we know where we’re leading to.
Horowitz: And if you’re asking whether we know what we’d like the last moment of the series to be, yes, we do.
Hmm...I'm not sure if this a good thing or a bad thing. TV is hard to plan effectively ahead of time, due to the fickleness of networks and audiences. There's no guarantees - just as the creators of Babylon 5 and Farscape - who did the same thing. On the other hand, Lost and BSG were flying by the skin of their teeth for a bit there, and realized oops we really should put together an end game. But there was Breaking Bad - which according to its creator did not have a clear plan in place, just a general idea - ie, Walt would die at the end, and it would be sort of Macbethian.