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I don't buy into the idea that we as viewers can sense an actor's private thoughts from his performance. If an actor is doing his job even halfway decently he is focused on the character and not himself and what we are seeing is the actors take on the character in that situation and not the actor's passive-aggressive commentary on the script. That would be pretty unprofessional. My take on Rumple's behavior was he was grieving the death of his son and processing the events we saw in season 3. I thought his performance was consistent with someone who had experienced horrible things and was not able to talk about it rationally. The whole obsession with cleaving himself from the dagger was a reaction to Zelena controlling him and was supposed to be extreme and obsessive. That is not so different from people who go overboard installing and upgrading home security after a break in, or someone who is obsessive about always carrying pepper spray and keeping their money and id in their shoe after being mugged. I also assumed during season 4 that RC was just exhausted because, as he mentioned in interviews, he was working two jobs - his regular day job and doing editing and post-production of his film. I also think it is unwise to reveal too much to actors hired for a day or two of filming who can bail on you and commit to another project at any time, as was the case with Christie. Who knows if they can be trusted to keep a plot secret since they are not in it for the long haul so better not to tell them.

I wouldn't call it a tactic. Indeed, A&E try to do the opposite. Lana once said in an interview that Adam and Eddy offer to take each main cast member to lunch to fill them in on what is planned for their character in the coming season. She said she declines the offer because she doesn't want to know anything in advance. That knowledge could influence her acting choices and performance in ways she doesn't want it to. So if other cast members are in the dark about their characters it is probably their choice. Many actors don't want to know what is in store for their characters for the same reasons. Actor Kevin Chapman of Person of Interest said in an interview a while back that he only read the scenes his character was in and not the rest of the script because he didn't want to know more than his character knows, again, because it could negatively influence his performance. Gregory Peck once said, I believe it was on the Tonight Show, that he wished he had not known the end of Duel in the Sun because knowing how it ended made his job harder in his scenes with Jennifer Jones. I've heard and read similar things over the years from countless other actors. There does seem to be a consensus among working actors that knowing too much about a character goes against the idea of being in the moment and can make a performance less authentic. Pretty much all the actors of the various shows represented at Comic Con say the same thing, that they have only seen a couple of scripts and don't know what is planned for their character. What you seem to be framing as yet another egregious failing on the part of A&E is in reality a long-standing industry practice. If working actors don't see that as a big deal or a hindrance to doing their jobs then it makes little sense for people outside the industry to get upset about it on their behalf. Brett Dalton said in his post-finale round of interviews for AOS that he didn't find out his character was being killed off until he was called into the producers office shortly before the episode started filming. Taraji P Henson found out her character was killed off in Person of Interest the same way. Robert Carlyle once talked about not knowing anything in advance in a radio interview with a local Scottish reporter. He was telling how Ken Loach didn't even give the actors scripts. They got their lines as they were filming so when he showed up for work he never knew what he would be doing. He was ok with that. He also said some other interesting things that he wouldn't say to an American reporter. While I don't know about the historical accuracy, it was a running gag in Shakespeare in Love that the actors never knew what they were supposed to do because Will didn't give them sides until the last minute and kept rewriting scenes out from under them. That movie was released in 1998, so it was not a new thing back then. I recently read a book about the golden age of radio. Apparently, it was common that the writers were only a day or so ahead of the broadcast in their writing so actors got their sides for the day when they arrived at the studio. They would read them, have a rehearsal and then do the live broadcast. Occasionally, someone would find out he was out of a job by reading in the script that his character was killed off. I would think that Robert Carlyle has nothing but warm regard for Adam and Eddy. After spending 20 years following his bliss and, as he said, having nothing to show for it, they revived his flagging career and made him a wealthy man. RC has repeated expressed in interviews how blessed and grateful he is for that.

I think Robert looks his age now, but he still looks better a lot better than most men in their fifties. I see that they are continuing with the teenager look for Belle. Rumple and Belle do look and act very much like father and daughter. That's not a good look for a married couple.

It is a fact that Gibson kicked Williams. There were eye witnesses. No one involved is disputing that fact, not even Gibson.

I think Jekyll and Hyde are the second string villains this season. Their story may be done after half a dozen episodes. Jafar is probably the real big bad because Oded Fehr is the big name star of the season. Of course they knew when Emilie would stop being pregnant soon. Belle having a baby gives her something to do or an excuse why she is not on screen because she is at home feeling unwell or taking care of the baby or running her shiny new daycare or something. As long as Rumple gets his own story line and is not dragged into her baby story line too much I'm fine with it.

I'm hopeful. Robert Carlyle is always paired up with the major guest star of the season for his main story line.

I saw on other sites from people who were watching filming in Steveston yesterday that he was filming with the short hair. He wore a wig for some filming of 6-1 but, apparently, they have ditched it, at least for scenes in present time. Maybe the combination of everyone telling RC how great he looks with short hair and the hassle of wearing a wig convinced him to let go of the long hair. He was having more bad hair days than good ones. A boxed-baby-snatching story line would give Rumple a second chance to get it right in his quest to find his child. If Jafar is the snatcher so much the better. Oded Fehr and Robert Carlyle would be entertaining to watch. That is much preferable to a cloying storyline wherein Belle is the fragile, pampered pregnant lady while Rumple rubs her tummy and serves her herbal tea and digestive biscuits.

Studios always have the option to release actors from their contracts. Otherwise it would never be possible to write off characters for creative reasons and that's done all the time.

So they've changed their stance on deleted scenes. that. It's their prerogative. They can do that.

Wouldn't it defeat the purpose of killing off the character if the body is unrecognizable? That leaves the door open for a return, which under the circumstances shouldn't happen. There is no way that Gibson can return without it being a PR nightmare for the studio and network. If they are going to kill him off it needs to be unequivocal to put the whole thing behind them.

From what I've read elsewhere, some people are enjoying them, so there is a point to them.

Getting physically violent is a completely different class of behavior from being difficult to work with. The studio and network have a responsibility and obligation to ensure a safe environment for everyone who works there, and to take steps to minimize liability and exposure to lawsuits. Those needs outweigh any desire of fans to have satisfying closure for a character. Studios are also free to change their policies to crack down on verbal and physical abuse in the work place, so what other actors may or may not have gotten away with in the past has no bearing on the present.

My observations of how other shows handle things: When the studio or network is sure the actor will not be coming back the character gets killed off. When the actor left on bad terms they just rip off the band-aid with a quick character death and then move on. The character is never or rarely mentioned again. Coming up with a story arc to write the character out of the show and continuing to mention the character reminds viewers of the departed actor and typically leads to unwanted questions from fans and reporters about the possibility of him returning to the show. Keeping the character alive also invites constant questions and speculation about a possible return. That's something the studio probably doesn't want to deal with. I doubt that there is any possibility of Gibson ever appearing in a future episode. A traffic accident is probably the best way to kill off Hotch. It can plausibly happen off screen, requires no setup or exposition, there is nothing to investigate, no door is left open for a return and everyone can move on. On the other hand, recasting the role would really send the message that Gibson is never coming back.

A show has use of a sound stage for the duration of filming the season. Some sets are built and stay in place for the whole season. Others are set up as needed and then packed up and stored. One production does not share a space with another production. Filming episodes out of order works at the beginning of the season because writers typically start work in June and have several scripts completed before filming starts in July. This year Grimm started filming a month later than usual, I believe. As the season progresses the writers lose their lead and filming out of order becomes more difficult because scripts for later episodes are not finished yet.

That would be the majority of people. Not everyone has a do-nothing desk job in a secluded cubicle. There are bus drivers, construction workers, nurses, teachers, food service workers, to name a few occupations, who have to do their job because others depend on them. Most people are expected to spend the work day working. And a lot of office workers have meany-pants employers like me who told my employees up front that if they want to watch the Olympics during the day they need to take vacation days because I'm not paying them to watch TV at work.

Williams could still press criminal charges, which Gibson would likely plead guilty to a lesser charge to avoid a trial. That would impact a civil suit. I imagine if Gibson decides to sue that is what Williams will do,

I can't think of any reason to assault a coworker no matter how heated the argument gets. It doesn't matter what the writer said to Gibson. There is no excuse for assault. I won't even put up with yelling matches at work. I've fired an employee for losing his temper and screaming at people. I expect people to have control of themselves and be professional at all times. Anyone who can't do that has no place at my company.

Assaulting a coworker will get you fired pretty much everywhere. Firing a violent person is the responsible thing to do. He was a lawsuit waiting to happen.

But a sleeping curse is not the same as dying. One can come back from it fairly easily. It has also been shown on the show that people can and do recover from scary events like a sleeping curse.

Being under the influence of a sleeping curse is not the same as dying. They make that very clear. It seems that everyone in fairy tale land knows this and sees it as being temporarily incapacitated until someone shows up to administer true love's kiss to break it. The dwarfs didn't know Snow was under a sleeping curse. They weren't there when Snow ate the poisoned apple. People thought Henry had died because they were cursed themselves and didn't believe in magic in their cursed state. However, Regina knew Henry was under a sleeping curse when she learned he had eaten the turnover and she said so. Everyone knows Belle isn't dead and is just under a sleeping curse and will eventually wake up if rumple can get his act together. Rumple really did die without scare quotes and went to the Underworld. Charming did not die in the pilot. He was in a comma in Storybook. That's why he was in a hospital and not in the morgue. He did die in season 3 when his heart was crushed. We the viewers knew in all cases whether a character had really died or was under a curse or in a coma even if the characters it he show did not at that moment. So, no not everyone has died on the show.

That's a pretty common theme in a lot of mythologies and stories. A hero does something daring and dangerous to save people and then goes back to his life while a savior makes the ultimate sacrifice to save others. That's the different between a hero and a savior. Heroism is something anyone can rise to when the occasion demands it but a true savior is destined for the epic and extraordinary unselfish act that only a few chosen ones are capable of.

Perhaps he will be available when his role on his current show ends and he could come back so they are keeping the door open. Adding a line of dialog to explain the absence of a very minor barely recurring character is not necessary. Giving screen time, even just for a line of dialog, to one character always comes at the expense of another character's screen time. There's a lot of complaining that favorite characters do not get enough screen time. Why would you want to reduce that further to make time for characters who are unimportant, or some might say "pointless", to the show?

Phillip didn't die. Julian Morris is a regular on another show, so unavailable.

I react the same way to the trendy phrase "I can't even." I'm always tempted to ask "You can't even what? Finish a sentence?" but I don't .

Emma could have kept Henry if she really wanted to. In 2001, when Henry was born, it was already very common for women giving birth in correctional facilities to keep their babies with them, if that is what they wanted. Henry did not need to be separated from Emma. Emma did not try to ensure that her baby would not land in the system. She did not inquire about what would happen to him or attempt to speak to a social worker about his future. She didn't even spend 60 seconds with her child for that matter. Open adoptions were also common in 2001. Emma could have interviewed families to find the right family for her baby but she didn't. Emma had lots of choices but she did nothing for her baby, not a thing. That's why I see it as abandonment. Had Emma kept her baby, she would have gotten services and could have lived, for example, in a group home with other young mothers, gotten her GED, a job, etc, and taken the first steps to make a better life for herself, all with support from the state. That would have been a significant step up from robbing convenience stores and fencing stolen goods but she instead chose to continue her old life of crime for another 9 or so years until she had her transformative red jacket experience. Emma went to jail for a crime she committed. She was not an innocent victim. Bad luck for her that her criminal boyfriend was involved in ratting her out, but you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. If Emma had not insisted on helping Neal fence the watches she would have been in the clear. Sure, Emma had a crummy childhood. But at some point she chose to keep picking at the scabs of her old wounds to keep them open and festering instead of letting them heal so she could move on. She could have chosen to get professional help for that but she didn't. If fate had determined that Emma was meant to break the curse she would have eventually ended up in Storybrook, just under different circumstances. She could have made different choices for a better life along the way.