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orza

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  1. Given the state of the ratings, none of the actors have any leverage. Channing Dungey is the one with all the power here. She pretty much laid it out during her recent TCA interviews that if the show returns it will be with a reduced or different cast. She seems to be prepared to move forward without some of the hitherto presumed stars of the show, if need be. I doubt executive management at abc considers any one actor essential to the future of the show. It's all about cutting costs. They can come up with story lines to fit whatever cast they are left with.
  2. Forever is owned by Warner Bros. so abc would not benefit from any possible syndication deals, foreign distribution, Netflix, etc. The only revenue stream was advertising from first broadcast. That was not enough to justify keeping a poorly performing show on the schedule. It may have done better in other parts of the world but abc did not get a piece of that pie and without the revenue from American broadcast it was not worth it to Warner to continue with it.
  3. The major life decision that Carlyle is talking about surely has to do with how well T2 Trainspotting does at the box office. I saw it last weekend in Edinburgh and Carlyle gives a terrific performance. He will probably be getting offers on the strength of his performance that he will need to consider. He could be on the verge of reviving his career as a major British movie star, if that 's what he wants. The last part of the film is clearly a setup for a third movie based on The Blade Artist, which is all about his character. In all the interviews over the past couple of days RC is openly talking about how he really wants to do The Blade Artist, and that they are discussing it. If T2 does well it would still take a year or more to get financing for the project and a final script written. If the box office is disappointing it will take longer. Carlyle may not want to commit to other new projects while the future of this possible sequel is still up in the air. My impression from interviews is that RC would go back to Britain for this project otherwise he would be open to staying on with the show for the sake of his family. While RC didn't backpedal on his recent remark about packing up and going home, he carefully avoided saying anything remotely similar in this round of interviews and was positive about the show and his character when interviewers brought it up.
  4. The writers are telling a story. Weak, whiny people like Molly exist in real life, as do people who are real tools. It's legitimate to show them. I don't assume anything writers put in the show necessarily represents their attitudes and actions in their personal lives.
  5. Shield came back from holiday break last week and aired a new episode on Jan 10th that got an 0.82 rating.
  6. His wife is Sue Vertue. She's a producer of the show.
  7. Latin was part of classical education. Victoria studied Latin, along with French, as we heard, and other languages.
  8. That katmtan person is just another set stalker looking for attention who, apparently, hobnobs with some crew members. She posts low-level gossip and breadcrumbs spoilers to get page views on her tumblr. She doesn't know anything, either, and is often wrong.
  9. If Rumple dies in episode 16 and a week from this Friday is RC's last day of filming, I doubt he would have brought his family back to Vancouver this past weekend with a huge pile of luggage and put his children back in school only to pull them out of school again after just two weeks to go back home to Glasgow. That seems far-fetched. Most parents would not put their kids through that for a job they are clearly not very attached to.
  10. The premiere of T2 is January 22nd in Edinbourgh. Match 3rd is the North American US release date. Robert Carlyle doesn't need to be written off the show to attend it. They just need to clear his filming schedule for the following Monday and perhaps Tuesday to accommodate a quick oversees trip. Jonny Lee Miller will also be on hand for the premiere and he is the the main character of his show and appears in every episode.
  11. I wouldn't call Emma the main character. I've never considered her that. A&E and ABC have marketed this as an ensemble show, not the Emma show. If anything, I think they consider Regina to be the main character. That was the show that A&E sold to ABC back then and the first person person they had to sell that to was Channing Dungey, VP for development. Maybe she wants to get back to some semblance of the show that she originally developed and distance herself from Paul Lee's vision of the show, which led to steadily declining ratings over the years. If Jennifer Morrison's contract ends this year I can see the network not wanting to renew it because that would cost them even more money and that can't be justified for an ailing show. Or she wants to move on for various reasons.
  12. If all of the regulars have standard Hollywood 7-years contracts it will be ABC deciding who stays and who goes. They can release actors from their contracts if they want to leave or against their will for "creative reasons", or ABC can hold actors to their contractual obligations for another year if that suits their plan. In the end it will be about money and what direction they want to take the show, not whether a couple is popular with online fans.
  13. I think the Black Fairy story arc will culminate in the final battle Rumple talked about in the pilot. That could serve as a good series finale, if need be. Rumple and some of other characters portrayed by high-priced actors could conveniently die heroically, significantly reducing Dungey's budget for the show. Drastic cost-cutting is typically a requirement for renewal of aging shows with declining viewership. A reboot with the same actors doesn't save money. A possible reboot could be something along the lines of OUAT:TNG with a thirty-something Henry and and the current crop of babies as young adults. They seem to like Giles so adult Gideon could be part of that. It's already canon that time passes differently in the Black Fairy's realm so that could be a way for some of the recurring characters and maybe one or two of the regulars to make the transition. A fresh cast of relatively unknown young actors who cost half as much as the current actors exploring lesser known fairy tales could be their path to more seasons.
  14. In theory Juliette could have done a lot of what Rosalee is doing. The main thing standing the way of that was Elizabeth Tulloch's lack of acting skills, which probably hurt the character of Juliette more than anything else. Bree Turner is a good actor and made her character very likable and relate-able. If the network had market research showing that Rosalee that is well-liked among viewers and Bree has a good Q score, then it probably told the writers to give her character a more prominent role. In general, networks tend to give prominence to actors and characters they think will draw viewers. A lot of casting and creative decisions are heavily influenced by what makes business sense to network executives.
  15. Well, Jennifer Morrison has also been editing her movie she filmed last summer and doing other post-production. That is probably all taking place in Los Angeles. Robert Carlyle had reduced screen time and only gave one or two perfunctory interviews during season 4 when he was busy editing his film. Working two jobs at once is tiring and completing one's own movie is certainly more interesting and would have a higher priority over a job that has become routine over the years. I'm also fine with JM now sitting out a few episodes every season just like all the other actors do. She doesn't have to be shoehorned into every episode and scene if she is only standing around in the background..
  16. Ginnifer Goodwin's reduced presence and importance on the show is probably mostly a result of her life choices. She has been either pregnant or nursing an infant for most of the filming time since season three. She has more than once openly talked about wanting a big family on talk shows and how she doesn't like Vancouver and wants to raise her children in Los Angeles and in general has very publicly put her desire for a family ahead of her career. In view of that she may not have a whole lot of pull at the studio. She has also fully made the physical transformation from picture-perfect fairy tale princess to frumpy, pudgy middle-aged soccer mom. While she will no doubt get a role in a Zootopia sequel or perhaps another cartoon, I don't see her getting any more leading roles. I also don't think Ginnifer Goodwin is anything more than an average actor. She seems to be playing basically the same character in everything I've seen her in and that character is awfully close to the person we see on talk shows.
  17. Well, it was ten years from when Emma got out of jail to when she arrived in Storybrooke. If all she had were one night stands during that time she must have gone through a lot of men. Assuming she only had sex with a partner about once a month would be more than 100 men. Well, it was ten years from when Emma got out of jail to when she arrived in Storybrooke. If all she had were one night stands during that time she must have gone through a lot of men. Assuming she only had sex with a partner about once a month would be more than 100 men. Yeah, Emma said that after Mary-Margaret told her about the one night stand with Whale.
  18. Banning one does not logically prevent the other from happening. People have sex without emotional entanglements all the time. Ask Emma. She was the queen of one night stands before arriving in Storybrooke. Declaring that people or fairies are not "allowed" to fall in love doesn't make any sense because there is no way to enforce such a prohibition without some magical means of controlling people's emotions. The Blue Fairy or anyone else ban others from falling in love all they want but that won't actually prevent that from happening.
  19. Falling in love and having sex that results in a pregnancy are two different things. Either one can and does occur without the other.
  20. Rumple was a normal man who became a powerful magical being so what not fairies? It is certainly canon that humans can transform into magical beings so that could also include becoming fairies. We saw how Malcolm chose becoming Pan over Rumple and how he hated him for that so I think it is likely we'll see how Rumple's mother chose being a powerful fairy over him and that is why Rumple hates fairies.
  21. Rumple was six years old when Malcolm transformed into Pan after they arrived in Neverland. He was still a middle-aged loser when Rumple was born. Pan didn't exist back when Rumple was conceived. We don't know if Rumple's mother was always a fairy or transformed into one sometime after Rumple's birth. Since Malcolm was just a regular schmo it makes more sense that Rumple's mother was also one and then something happened after Rumple's birth that enticed her to become a fairy.
  22. The ME said second guy who died from consuming the human sausage died of an overdose of horse tranquilizer, and they deduced that the first gut died that way, too, given the amount of the stuff in the sausage.
  23. Atwood knows the statistics of kidnap victim survival and rescue when the FBI is involved. While he may have to accept those numbers as a professional when he is involved as a part of his job, he may find the survival rate unacceptable when it is his own child in jeopardy. I don't find it at all unusual or weird that he would ignore all protocols and procedures and act on his own when it is his own child.
  24. The Gideon we've seen exists so far only in Belle's dreams. It could be that he is just a manifestation of what Belle doesn't want to face up to. He "tells" Belle what to do but what he is telling her is really thoughts floating around in the back of her mind that she doesn't want to take responsibility for. It is easier to believe her son came to her in her dreams to tell her what to do than to own her decisions. Just like it is easier for her to believe that Rumple can change if he just tries harder rather than accept that this is who he fundamentally is an he is utterly unable to be the person she wants him to be.
  25. If they had left young Pine alive in 1969 after they got his badge he might have remembered them in 2016 when they came to pump him for information and not told them what they needed to know. I suppose they killed the plumber so he couldn't give descriptions of them to police and NASA security that could be used to identify them the next day.
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