Jane Espenson: When we started the season with the three threads instead of two, we were all tentative. Will this work? It really quickly became evident that it was not just going to work, but it was going to step everything up. For the first time, you have story lines that are happening contemporaneous with each other. We always had those fairy-tale story lines from the past. We just felt this excitement when we got to the end of Episode 201, when we do that reveal that these two stories have been happening at the same time. We can still tell stories from the past, so we've got three different colors of story on the board; we write on the white board with different color ink. We've totally fallen in love with these stories.
In Sunday's episode, we'll see how Regina met Rumple, which kind of sounds like When Harry Met Sally... in a way, though I'm sure it's very different.
Espenson: [Laughs] Can an evil queen and a wicked sorcerer be friends? They are the main focus of this episode, but there's an awful lot going on in town with David (Joshua Dallas) as well. They're sharing the spotlight. I'd listen carefully to what Rumple says about their first meeting. Maybe this is their first meeting, but maybe they go even further back.
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I assume Rumple had something to do with Cora giving birth to Regina.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Emma&Snow relationship is gonna be amazing
ReplyDeleteOK, so they are finally addressing the Emma-Magic situation. I'm looking forward to learning more about that.
ReplyDeleteAbout the "you are not my prince", I believe that perhaps Whale was a subject to Regina and loyal to her (due to her power, not real loyalty), hence not recognizing him as prince and now that the game has changed, not being loyal to Regina either. I am very curious to find out who Whale really was. If he were a free person from, let's say, somewhere else, who happened to be in FTL when the curse "happened" it could also mean that he doesn't recognize Charming as his prince.
The most interesting bit for me was the idea that perhaps Rumple and Regina go way back, before they actually met...Did Cora make a deal with Rumple to make sure Regina would marry a king (and was partially responsible for Snow's mother's death)? Or did Cora herself make a deal to marry rich or get magic powers?
Hmm, interesting. Or Cora made a deal with Rumple so that:
ReplyDelete- she could marry someone rich and leave her poor life behind her;
- she could get bad ass magic powers;
- Regina would marry a king (even if a king had to be widowed for it).
Very cool interview. I loved all the Battlestar references ;)
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ReplyDeleteI am curious to learn if Rumple played a hand at helping Cora get out of poverty and how that could relate to Henry Sr...But I agree that I think Snow White's mothers death could also relate with dealing with Rumple...
ReplyDeleteRumple is behind it all. I just wonder exactly how (with details) he got his powers, because if he is that powerful, the person or entity that gave him his powers is surely a BAMF.
ReplyDeleteShe would give him a lot in return if a deal with him gave her all of that. And if she is THE miller's daughter and she had promised her baby (Regina) to Rumple, but he didn't get it I want to know what she could have done to get out of the deal. Or what else she could have given to him that would make him let her keep her baby.
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn more about the dark one, or previous personas of the dark one!
ReplyDeleteOoooh, nice train of thought.. "accumulative knowledge and/or identities". The knowledge would be cool per se and the multiple identities would add even more to the already conflituous nature of any person.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Cora is the "original" Rumple story, the daughter of the miller who was supposed to spin straw into gold but cant, yadda yadda, promises her firstborn and gets away with it by guessing Rumplestiltskin's name and making him furious.
ReplyDeleteSince that might be the first time that Rumple loses a deal, he swears vengeance agains Cora and causes the whole mess with Regina in order for Regina to come runnning to him in order to get back at her mother (who IMO she bans to wonderland). That would be a hypothesis in which Cora's bargain has nothing to do with Regina's marriage, but to hers.
I knew what you what you meant (: -It's hard to talk about it, since we don't really know what or who the dark one is/was (a person, or a force), but it seems like something with a lot of potential to add onto Rumple's and others stories!
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking something Voldemort esque with the dagger--the idea that maybe a person can split their souls into objects -but maybe, since the writers have made the wrath a little Dementor-ish, that perhaps there is something to that? Maybe if you rip apart you're soul all you have left id this "shadow" and maybe that is what the dark one is????????
Ooooh, I like the soul-splitting, even though it is very complex to even begin to organize my ideas about it :D
ReplyDeleteNow, with these dark thoughts and all I started to think that Whale might be a minion of this dark force, hence his tendency to create conflict and be all ambiguous and creepy. Like a light version of a Mephistopheles with allegiance to nobody but the weird darkness or whatever voldemortish thing that is the origin of the dark one's powers.
I remember Cora telling Regina somthing like "after the deals I had to make for this life you don't get to say what's to happen in yours" after Regina told her it was her life and that she loved Daniel.
ReplyDeleteOh, I had completely forgotten about that. Hmm, now I am almost positive that Cora and Rumple go way back!
ReplyDeleteInteresting interview. Thanks for sharing! I have high hopes for Once Upon a Time, knowing that they have a writer like this on their show. The fact that Espenson was a Battlestar Galactica writer, while we also have Lost creators/executive producers, makes me really excited for this show's future. The stories and writing they've come up with so far have been so amazing to me. Plus, after reading this interview, Ms. Espenson seems like a very literate, well-spoken, intelligent person, and one hopes, having equally good writing skills, especially in terms of dialogue.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the content of the interview, I'm really looking forward to more Emma-Snow adventures, Rumple & Regina's backstory, and more about the various lands of FTL. How very exciting! =)