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Once Upon A Time - Season 3 - Michael Raymond-James Upped To Regular

15 May 2013

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Once Upon a Time has promoted Michael Raymond-James to series regular in the fairytale drama’s upcoming third season, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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83 comments:

  1. klutzy_girl15 May 2013 at 02:31

    Yes! I've been hoping for this since I love Neal.

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  2. Compass_115 May 2013 at 02:33

    I'd love to know more about what it means in regards to Philip, Mulan, and Aurura. Will we see them with him too, at least during the first episodes of next season?

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  3. ryan15 May 2013 at 02:33

    Oh god why. The cast is already too bloated with characters. Belle gets sidelined for five to six episodes at a time, and the Charmings pretty much exist just to tell Emma her plans are bad.

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  4. JoshuaAndre2115 May 2013 at 02:37

    yes! I guess ABC did have to have somebody added after Ruby possibly going be recurring...

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  5. Erica Hudson15 May 2013 at 02:39

    This makes sense, his character has so many open story lines, plus he's Henry's father. The last two episodes were pretty much about. Im glad, it allows for some contunity, plus hook and rumple can re build their relationship w him. Plus can't wait to see him home in the enchanted forest!

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  6. Victor15 May 2013 at 02:40

    Great news, I was really hoping for this

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  7. fmsa15 May 2013 at 02:42

    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS
    BEST NEWS OF THE DAY

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  8. juni valentine15 May 2013 at 02:44

    Well, I guess it's a given, but hell yeah Nealfire!!! :D

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  9. Jonathan_Andre15 May 2013 at 02:44

    well let's just hope that with the introduction of him as a series regular that he not just there for credits sake and actually appears in most episodes (unlike Red who wasn't in much episodes in season 2). In fact, I think Red appeared more in Season 1 than Season 2.

    So who are the main and recurring cast now in Season 3? Lemme give this a crack-
    Main: Snow White, Emma, Prince Charming, Regina, Henry, Neal, Belle, Rumplestiltskin, Greg, Tamara, Hook
    Recurring: Aurora, Mulan, Phillip, Grumpy, Anton, Ruby, Marco, Dr Whale, Pinocchio, Blue Fairy, Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy, Archie, Jefferson, Robin Hood, Albert Spencer, Granny, Young Snow White, Cora (in flashbacks), any character in OUAT in Wonderland???



    Anyone missing? What do you think will happen to Sidney Glass, Cinderella/Ashley, Thomas/Sean and Kathryn and Fredrick?

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  10. fmsa15 May 2013 at 02:46

    Greg and Tamara are not a part of the main cast. They're recurring.

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  11. CTR15 May 2013 at 02:49

    SO happy! I LOVE Neal!!! MRJ deserves this he is a great actor and amazing addition to the cast!! GOOD call Adam & Eddy!!

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  12. Casey Young15 May 2013 at 02:51

    YAY! More Nealfire! :D


    And this pretty much proves that he's not dead XD

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  13. Bruce_F15 May 2013 at 02:52

    Well, there's regular and then there's regular.
    Emma, Gold, Regina, Snow, & Charming are regular characters. Every other series regular should probably be listed with the "regular" part in quotes or maybe with an asterisk instead.

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  14. Jonathan_Andre15 May 2013 at 02:54

    well henry's also regular without the quotes... as is Neal and Hook. I guess every other 'regular' cast member will probably appear in about half the episodes anyway...

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  15. melbye15 May 2013 at 02:57

    I actually wonder what will happen with Mulan since Jaime Chung is apparently a regular on NBC's Believe

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  16. JoshuaAndre2115 May 2013 at 02:58

    but isn't Believe in the midseason- so they may not start shooting the rest of the episodes til the 2nd half of the year?


    so it's possible Mulan can be recurring next year and appear in most of the episodes prior to the midseason break

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  17. JoshuaAndre2115 May 2013 at 02:58

    that's a very large cast! and on top of those, aren't they introducing more characters, such as Ariel, Aladdin and Rapunzel?

    doubtful that Robin Hood will be recurring, and maybe Greg and Tamara will be recurring, depending on how long the Neverland storyline will last (which is possibly all the episodes til the break)...

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  18. Bruce_F15 May 2013 at 03:10

    Even Henry doesn't get close to the screen time the others get, especially with child labor laws and such. There's a strict limit to how much he can work. Neal wasn't technically a series regular until this announcement. As for Hook, I'll concede that he probably should be counted in with the other legit regulars.

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  19. Robin15 May 2013 at 03:19

    They will need a new Mulan because i believe that actress got a new show.

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  20. laura334115 May 2013 at 03:32

    No they changed it up.Both will begin in the fall on different nights,as of now,they would always change their mind again!

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  21. JoshuaAndre2115 May 2013 at 03:33

    but isn't that show 'Believe' in the midseason so maybe she can film both (especially if the Aurora/Mulan/Phillip/Neal scenes are prior to the Christmas break)...

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  22. romanticelizabeth415 May 2013 at 03:39

    I think we aren't going to see her and we will probaby see a little bit of Aurora/Phillip in the first episode.

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  23. ecrc15 May 2013 at 03:39

    Almost all characters have a connection with Bae. The curse itself was created for Rumpel find Bae.

    Bae is one of the pivotal characters...

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  24. Kathleen Kervin15 May 2013 at 03:39

    And Emma exists only to prop Regina, Neal and Hook.


    If they put Neal together with Emma, I'm done with the show.

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  25. romanticelizabeth415 May 2013 at 03:40

    And they are probably going to disappear in the first episodes because Tamara is now a regular in The Walking Dead.

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  26. Suliet0515 May 2013 at 03:41

    YES!!! HE'S ALLLLIIIVVVE!!!

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  27. MeatyStakes15 May 2013 at 03:49

    Wait, does that mean we will see Mulan, Aurora and Phillip more next season?

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  28. koky15 May 2013 at 03:50

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

    he's alive! he's alive! HE'S ALIVE!!!!!

    I'm so happy I love Neal and was hoping they would make him a regular.
    Thank u ABC :D

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  29. MeatyStakes15 May 2013 at 03:51

    No wonder she looked familiar! Oh, then yeah, Tamara is going to bite it (ha) soon in OUAT then.


    Unless she bites it first on TWD.

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  30. MeatyStakes15 May 2013 at 03:52

    Yeah, Hook also didn't get that much screentime last season, but maybe this season he will get more.

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  31. MeatyStakes15 May 2013 at 03:55

    So probably next season, at least the first half, will have little in the way of Storybrooke. Maybe Ruby's absence won't be noticeable. And if, heaven forbids, Intelligence doesn't go beyond a 13 episode run, Ory could get right in time for the second, hypothetically Storybook centered, half of the season.

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  32. JoshuaAndre2115 May 2013 at 04:02

    both will debut in the fall? are you sure- cause as far as I know, Believe will debut next year after the 2014 Winter Olympics- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(TV_series)

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  33. Pamela Doe15 May 2013 at 04:07

    Great news! Love Emma and Neal.

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  34. Ronald Garcia15 May 2013 at 04:33

    i dont know what to feel about him i hate that he is henry`s father and at the same time beaelfire.... not happy about it! hope he gets killed by an ogre on EF

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  35. Ronald Garcia15 May 2013 at 04:34

    both mulan and aurora got a show this year one is in mixology and the other on believe but i think both of them are midseasons maybe they can shot the episodes they need for OUAT

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  36. Timothy Pratt15 May 2013 at 04:54

    No

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  37. fmsa15 May 2013 at 06:33

    You have no idea how much I want you to be correct about this.

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  38. KatHale15 May 2013 at 08:18

    Not surprising.So far I'm kind of neutral when it comes to Neal.I think MRJ is great,I like young Bae but when it comes to Neal,I'm not so sure yet.
    I'm glad that he'll be a regular though.I'd love to see him reuniting with his father and,after the season finale,Hook.I loved the flashbacks and it's one relationship I'd like to see explored more.
    And also,the writer's haven't been exactly secretive about the love triangle coming up.So,his promotion makes sense.

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  39. vargesz15 May 2013 at 08:39

    I was hoping they would keep him apart from the participiants of Operation Let's Save Henry for a while but this doesn't look like they will... Unless we are to stay more with Aurora, Phillip and Mulan which is not very likely with the actors all having other shows as well. Anyways he knows more about Neverland and I am actually curious how he will fit into the family dynamic...

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  40. Folie-lex15 May 2013 at 08:51

    Wonderful and expected news.... I mean I would have been VERY surprised if he wasn't promoted.

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  41. Jim 10815 May 2013 at 09:03

    More likely ''it'' bites her. ;)

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  42. Compass_115 May 2013 at 09:40

    Her show olis a midseason show. She should be available during the first half of the season.

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  43. Justyna Kubica15 May 2013 at 10:31

    Yay! I love Neal. Hope this means we'll get to see more Aurora, Philip and Mulan too;)

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  44. Rita Coelho15 May 2013 at 11:26

    Bae has always been the reason why Rumpel created the curse and involved, all characters.

    I glad that MRJ will be regular next season :)

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  45. Pauline NICOLAS15 May 2013 at 12:16

    In a way I'm really glad because I like Neal, his story was far from over and I want more Gold/Neal and (since the final) Neal/Hook (even if I don't see MRJ as a old Bae because they really look like two different charactrs to me) but I'm afraid they'll pursue the Neal/Emma ship and I don't want that :(:(:(

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  46. laura334115 May 2013 at 13:02

    Last night in ABC's schedule that was listed it has both OUat and OUaT in Wonderland on two different nights

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  47. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 14:43

    It's possible that her Believe character might not be long for the season. I haven't read anything much that says she is meant to be a series regular, just that she joined the Believe Pilot...


    But they could easily kill he off or find a creative way to "remove" her if need be, but I'm not 100% convinced yet if Mulan, *Philip, and Aurora are "current" either, even though I hope they are for Regina's story's sake...

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  48. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 14:48

    Megan Ory is officially out, so if she appears it will have to be as "special guest star". I think we'll be lucky to see her once in season 3.

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  49. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 14:56

    No Josh is right, "Believe" (NBC) is for mid season (currently at a stupid time 9 on Sundays). Jamie Chung is in the Pilot (but I honeslyt don't know if she's going to be in it the whole season).


    If she's a series regular for Believe, there could be a conflict. -But it's also possible that OUAT could kill her off, or "magically" remove her from the forefront of the story!

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  50. laura334115 May 2013 at 15:14

    I was referring to both Once Upon A Time.I meant they will be shown on Thursday (wonder) and on Sunday Once.I somehow missed that he was referring to 'Believe'. :P

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  51. stormqueen15 May 2013 at 15:16

    Blech. i wish they had gotten a better actor. Seeing Neal and Dylan Schmid playing the same character just hammers home how inadequate MRJ is.

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  52. stormqueen15 May 2013 at 15:17

    "current" how?

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  53. stormqueen15 May 2013 at 15:17

    Yet the show managed without him.

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  54. laura334115 May 2013 at 15:20

    Yes,Believe is a mid season replacement.Unless they hanged it since yesterday?

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  55. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 15:22

    If this is their past... Much like LOST's Island (a time machine) they hinted at playing with "time and space" with Henry's prophecy picture. As much as I wanted Aurora to have "found" Philip from 'the after life' (Because I think it would be nice in the end if Regina could work and deserve being reunited with Daniel), I could this being a catch 22- time fold, where this for Mulan, Philip, and Aurora is Before the events of season 2...

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  56. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 15:38

    Ya! I figured. I'm surprised by ABC's move though and OUAT in WONDELAND looks good!

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  57. laura334115 May 2013 at 15:44

    Sorry Joshua i didn't mean to confuse,i thought you were talking about both OUaT,not Believe and Ounce.Sorry!

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  58. laura334115 May 2013 at 15:46

    Over on TNT Jeff Pinkner has hooked up with Spielberg about ,well go see for yourself!

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  59. DarthLocke415 May 2013 at 16:09

    Ha! I was just there a few mins ago and left you a comment! :)

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  60. Queen Of Hearts15 May 2013 at 16:28

    I really hope this means that Emma and Neal will be together eventually. There's something about them that I really like. JMo and MRJ seem very comfortable together and have really good chemistry. I think the writers are heading in the Hook/Emma direction though which...no. I hope they don't give in and pander to the fans of that ship just because it's popular. I wouldn't buy any scenario where Emma genuinely falls for him. Anyway, Neal/Emma!

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  61. Kelly M15 May 2013 at 18:27

    Best news!. He is such a great actor. I love him as Neal/Bae and love him w/Emma

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  62. Ann-Sophie Beimer15 May 2013 at 19:01

    So true.

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  63. laura334116 May 2013 at 02:06

    Ha! Tag your it!!! ;P

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  64. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 16:06

    Once Upon a Time certainly has enough logic problems without getting into Lost's plot missteps. So hopefully the don't do that. Within the current timeline, all three of them have only been together once, in the season 2, premiere.

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  65. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 16:09

    Compared with other actors, even young ones, who have played different versions of characters, there's always something in them that we can see to compare to the later character. MRJ has an easier job than they do because he should be informed by the previous character and there's just zero of Baelfire in him at all.

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  66. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 16:59

    Well I can understand how that would quantum mechanically work, but I still think it would be better for now to get back to something a little steadier and straight forward.

    About Mulan, Aroura, and Philip. Yeah. I know, but we don't know exactly what their story was before then, except at some point Belle helps Mulan turn Philip back into being Philip, which is why I could see them using one stone to kill to birds with the idea of this being their story, while also then moving the current story forward, but again, I would agree that it would be better to not do that. I'm still hoping Regina can at least reach Daniel elsewhere without him being demented or in pain...

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  67. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 17:03

    But we DO know Mulan, Aurora and Phillip's story enough to know that they had never travelled together before.


    And also, having Regina be able to reach Daniel is pretty much against what the entire show is about.

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  68. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 17:17

    "And also, having Regina be able to reach Daniel is pretty much against what the entire show is about.

    It would no longer necessarily be "if" Philip is alive/Resurrected (and normal), because then the writers game change and say, guess what you can get people back (and there for you don't have to fear death - which gives characters reasons to not act in poor taste). It might take a certain method or a "test" in order to do it too (like Indiana Jones or His Dark Materials), which would also then further challange Regina, should she seek it.

    I also think the Sleeping Curse is a type of "false death", and that the idea of "floors and rooms" in an Ethereal plane play to "levels" in a type of after life...There could be a "underworld" or something and I could see Neverland being associated with it somehow since there are some Lost parallels already.

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  69. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 17:20

    Ah...no. Phillip isn't dead. Daniel is dead. Twice.

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  70. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 17:50

    Into The Deep Transcript

    Cora: And what stakes do you have in their cause, Princess? It’s not as though you’d travel back with them. Oh… What a sweet, misguided notion. Did you really think you could have a life there? Find another prince? You’ve forgotten Phillip already.

    Aurora: Phillip is in my heart every moment of every day. If there was anything I could do to bring him back, I would.

    Cora: Is that so? What if I told you that when a wraith consumes a soul, it merely travels to another realm? But that soul could be brought back to this world? Show me a little courtesy, and I may explain how.

    ------------

    The issue is we don't know what death actually is on ONCE, but the idea of soul sucking and traveling to another realm does not mean that Neverland doesn't have an association with "death (Lost - "This Place is DEATH!"/ "Heart" of the Island = life, death, and rebirth)

    Even the curse created new incarnations of these people (again could be perceived as "a type of death and rebirth")

    Considering these guys continue in vein of Bad Robot and LOST, it seems likely their definition of death is "transitional" and creates infamous rebirths. If they want to be different than Lost then they will not end in a transition of death but expand and move beyond it, which finding people again who have died is one way to do that. The show will keep "expanding" on concepts in order to point out no one character knows all there is (and therefor neither does the audience) it then is never boring and is more mysterious.

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  71. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 17:56

    I really really hope that's not where they're going. But Lost's pop philosophy failure is not a place to start.


    I don't really understand what you're trying to say about Phillip. Phillip isn't dead. His soul left his body, temporarily but his body is alive. Daniel's body IS NOT alive. In fact, his body doesn't exist anymore.

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  72. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 18:43

    It's not pop philosophy it's Eastern Philosophy and Ancient Egyptian Philosophy. "Heart" in AE is the door way into the collective conscience. Collective conscience in metaphysical philosophies play the idea that collective conscience (once essence, spirit, soul, and identity) is what drives all physical matter. In Ancient Egyptian after life, they are placed, challenged, and then reborn back into the corporeal world. Many newer Pharaohs are thought be reincarnated Pharaohs that came before...

    My point about Philip is that it still represents a stage of death as having any essence be ripped from your soul is a type of death or near death state to be. It's the idea that death isn't final, which we also already got wind since even Daniel's consience came back temporarily from "elsewhere" -suggesting there is and elsewhere, despite that the characters to not know how to get there in their corporeal states of existence, and/or that the method Regina used was a bad one.

    Once has has established many living dead concepts so far, paving the way for life beyond and/or in stages of death and not supporting "finalization"

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  73. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 18:46

    Yes, I understand philosophy. But applying it to a television show that doesn't even try to make sense for 42 minutes is useless.

    And no. It may be a "stage" of semi-death. But it ISN'T DEATH. Because DEATH IS FINAL. That was the actual point of The Doctor and In the Name of the Brother. The entire point.

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  74. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 18:50

    They established THAT in "specific instance(s)" of bringing them back through using another's heart was wrong. -Just like there were people who could enter see Storybrook when it was created, as the mythos continues to expand, as no character has "the whole truth" of the nature of magic, life, morality, of death...it's a learning process.

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  75. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 18:54

    Okay, fine. I mean, it's really bad storytelling and counter-intuitive to the entire point they're trying to make, but okay.

    Because seriously, what you're trying to describe is the exact opposite of the entire point of Regina and Whale and Rumple's stories.

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  76. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 20:13

    It depends on what the point actually is and if death and or being with the dead is a bad thing or not. We really don't know that, we only know that so far "the ways in which" the characters have gone about it are morally wrong, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a moral way to get to where or what they want to....

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  77. stormqueen16 May 2013 at 20:17

    yeah, I get it. I don't think whether it's moral or not matters. It's unnatural and would have the potential to negate everything. So there's zero point in examining 'redemption' as a theme, something they very clearly want to do, if everyone that has been killed can just come alive again.

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  78. DarthLocke416 May 2013 at 23:29

    Yes but redemption in theological context tends to point to "a reword". I'm going by the instruction of this book, doctrine, laws of the universe, ect, because by doing certain things I will be rewarded, including my placement in the next life and who waits for me there.

    If in the Daniel back to life scene, they would have had him comfort her and given the knowledge to know they could be together again and not to worry, then I would think she is completely meant to move on, but instead they made him seem disturbed and upset, as he begged her to move on, giving her little reassurance of anything.

    If these are fate orientated universes (something bigger than them are driving them for a reason), then it is about getting to a more ethical place in order to be happy (or happier).

    I don't think they should do it until towards the end of the series, nor do I think it should be an easy task, but I do think if Regina works hard enough for her family (and herself), and if she doesn't find someone else (i would ok with Hook at this point), then I think she deserves a way to more pleasantly say goodbye, meet Daniel in the after life breifly, or be with him in the very end. --This idea I really liked on Felicity, as the 3rd time line was not the time line Felicity came from, but yet another one, where Alana was alive and with Tracey at Noel's wedding. It made what Felicity went through to understand herself that much more special, because she was able to get to a better place and right a wrong of another character (a character who should really be Regina's cousin)

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  79. Gabby Pastén Zúñiga8 April 2014 at 00:35

    I agree with you completely! I think the kid that plays the character is far better at it than MRJ

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  80. Gabby Pastén Zúñiga8 April 2014 at 00:35

    Nooooo!!!

    I hate his character! Why couldn't we have Cora instead? (yeah, I know she's dead, but seriously?! Neil should have died and Cora should have lived)

    Dammit!

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  81. laura33418 April 2014 at 03:37

    Last night in ABC's schedule that was listed it has both OUat and OUaT in Wonderland on two different nights They list OUaT in Wonderland at 8pm on Thursday nights and on Sunday ONUaT at 8pm.its here look towards the bottom of the page. http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/05/abc-new-shows-201314-mega-post.html

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  82. DarthLocke48 April 2014 at 03:58

    It's possible that her Believe character might not be long for the season. I haven't read anything much that says she is meant to be a series regular, just that she joined the Believe Pilot...


    But they could easily kill he off or find a creative way to "remove" her if need be, but I'm not 100% convinced yet if Mulan, *Philip, and Aurora are "current" either, even though I hope they are for Regina's story's sake...

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  83. Queen Of Hearts8 April 2014 at 04:35

    I really hope this means that Emma and Neal will be together eventually. There's something about them that I really like. JMo and MRJ seem very comfortable together and have really good chemistry. I think the writers are heading in the Hook/Emma direction though which...no. I hope they don't give in and pander to the fans of that ship just because it's popular. I wouldn't buy any scenario where Emma genuinely falls for him. Anyway, Neal/Emma!

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