General Spoilers & Speculation Thread

[Jade]

I figured we needed a place to talk about general spoilers for the show, that aren't specific to an episode.

I found this today. It's a few days old, but it confused the heck out of me.

Raphael Sbarge has opened up about the future of Once Upon a Time.

The actor plays Archie Hopper - aka Jiminy Cricket - on the ABC series. He revealed that he knows little about future episodes of the show, admitting that information about the upcoming installments is kept "pretty tight" on set.

He went on to say that he looks forward to learning the identity of Emma Swan's (Jennifer Morrison) fairytale land persona.

"Essentially, I don't [know]," Sbarge told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's not clear yet.

"We know obviously that she was a little girl put into safety in the canoe or whatever that was made of wood. We know that she's 28. She has come back and obviously she's there to help fight the curse. That's what we know."

He concluded: "It's going to be interesting to see how that opens up. What her fairy tale character is, I don't know yet and I'm really excited to see what they're going to do with that."

Sbarge recently revealed that his character's upcoming storyline made him cry, saying that the story arc devised by the show's writers "knocked [him] out".

The actor previously predicted that there will be an "epic battle" in the show, though he does not know when the showdown will occur.


Emma's fairy tale persona? But...she doesn't have one, does she? I thought that was the thing. Although...well, she is technically Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter, so sans curse, she should have had a persona, one would think.

Interesting. Confusing. But interesting. Thoughts?

[sanalayla]

Honestly? I read that to mean that the actor didn't know much about the rest of the characters other than his own.

I believe Morrison has said something about how she doesn't have a fairy tale counterpart. And we know from other interviews that the producers imagine that when they do Emma's 'flashback' sequence, it's going to be to the first 28 years of her life and how she had Henry and then gave him up, etc.

They have a lot to play with in terms of Emma's story with all that material (foster homes, etc.) to last several seasons. They don't really need to make up a fairy tale version of her (unless they double cast Morrison to play Snow's birth mom or something).

[Jade]

Oh, no, I think you misunderstood me. Which isn't a surprise, given that I'm on 2 hours of sleep here...

She doesn't have a counterpart now. But if the curse hadn't happened, would she have ended up being a Fairy Tale Princess? And, if so, which one? It seems logical that she would have been, all things considered.

My co-worker suggested that the fairy tales we all know are from the FTL in the past and that, when the spell is broken and they all return there, all new fairy tales will be written. So Emma would have been - had her life gone the way it would have done with no curse - a princess of a fairy tale that is as of yet unwritten. I thought that was kind of a cool idea.