Souris

And you thought the abysmal Once poster was the worst thing the ABC promo department would do.

OK, seriously, what is up with the roses this arc? What is the importance of the roses?

Charming, Robin & Hook from filming last night. Apparently roses were present again.

Well, we don't know for sure it's Merida. I still think Lily and Red are possibilities.

Ugh, usually Instagram is calmer than Twitter. That sucks.

I know, right? It's so cheap & tacky looking. Like he got it at the Camelot Dollar Store. It also looks like Zelena's. Merida's mom would become the Queen Mother (or Dowager Queen), and Merida would be the ruler. At least if they're going by British royal hierarchy.

Dr. Whale will make another appearance.

I assume a Light Swan/Dark Swan fight in her mind. Perhaps Light Swan is an angel on Dark Swan's shoulder. Or Dark Swan becomes Light Swan's devil on the shoulder instead of Rumple.

JMo as Light Swan with her double as Dark Swan.

I don't think the baby being cast is Zelena's baby. It's way too early. I have a feeling it's a baby in a flashback. Could be baby Emma, or I think it could be Merlin and Nimue's baby.

Filming yesterday (in studio, I guess): Robert, JMo, Colin, Josh, Sean, Liam, and Joana (different scenes)

Lots of people thought Blackbeard was going to be Hook's father because of a resemblance b/t Charles Mesure and Colin, and that was just a "happy accident."

I can see Charming being mad at Lancelot. I can see him being a bit mad at Snow for not telling him. But Snow didn't know until after the fact, either. It was a plan between Lancelot and Ruth.

What spoiler site are you talking about?

I do NOT want Hook to be related to any of these people! I want him to have his own heritage and backstory and his own damn arc. This will never happen, but I want it.

19 Teases for S5.

Absolutely! She'll fail until the very last bit of the arc, and then she will succeed in saving Emma. I had this theory I posted in the spec w/o spoilers thread: My new theory is that DarkSwan is prodding her to be the Savior on purpose as part of her seekrit plan to destroy the Darkness. She needs Regina to be the lightest of the light because Emma is now the darkest of the dark. (This would be a callback to Merlin's lightness wand that can only be wielded by darkness.) Ultimately, Emma and Regina will hold the dagger and Excalibur and rejoin them, and their combined Dark/Light magic will clash and destroy the darkness for good. If we're lucky, other characters will be allowed to add their love to Regina's Savior magic. Or perhaps Hook & Henry will hug DarkSwan, weakening her darkness. But if the show is true to form, it will only be Regina's new Savior magic that destroys the darkness. Some people seem to think Emma is faking being Dark, based on the preview where she's more herself with Henry until Regina shows up. I don't really buy that. However, I do think she has a plan to destroy the Darkness once & for all, and it requires Regina to be the Light Savior to her Dark One. BLERGH. TLK is the obvious answer. I think it's definitely going to be another failed TLK, and it's going to WRECK Hook. He'll be convinced he's not Emma's true love. If they don't explain WHY a TLK doesn't work, it's going to be even uglier than usual. CSers will be upset and SQers will crow that CS isn't true love. I may disappear into an underground bunker for all of 5A. On the spoiler I just linked: The show is going to say that Regina has never been to a ball before?? Regina, who was raised by regal stalker Cora? Regina, who was married to a KING? That is SO freaking ridiculous! Just something else to make her seem like poor pitiful Woegina. Snow's awful father never even let her go to a ball! In the 19 Teases article I linked in Spoilers, A&E say that characters will get their memories back at different times. Based on the filming spoiler from 5x02 of Regina saying in SB that she's doing "What I should have done in Camelot," it looks like she'll get her memory back first, in the next ep. I suspect she will use the dreamcatcher. Either she remembers something bad she did that she doesn't want the others to know about, or she remembers a plan that she and Emma concocted there and which requires everyone else not to remember.

Regina goes to her first ball. Meghan Ory IG photo of Red's cape.

Jamie Chung on set. Once will be filming in Steveston on Thursday, Oct. 1.

Where did you see that he flew OUT of Vancouver? All I got from his video was that he was getting on a plane. He could have been getting on a plane to fly BACK to Vancouver from a weekend trip somewhere. He wasn't at the Vancouver Whitecaps game on Saturday night, which he always goes to if he's not filming.

Half-hour breakdown from Marc Berman: 8:00 p.m. ABC – Once Upon a Time (season premiere) Viewers: 5.88 million (#3), A18-49: 1.8/ 6 (#3) CBS – 60 Minutes (season premiere) Viewers: 15.71 million (#2), A18-49: 2.9/ 9 (#2) NBC – Football Night in America (part 3) Viewers: 15.97 million (#1), A18-49: 5.7/18 (#1) Fox – The Simpsons (season premiere) Viewers: 3.26 million (#4), A18-49: 1.5/ 5 (#4) ———- 8:30 p.m. ABC – Once Upon a Time (season premiere) Viewers: 5.88 million (#3), A18-49: 1.7/ 5 (#3) CBS – 60 Minutes (season premiere) Viewers: 13.98 million (#2), A18-49: 2.4/ 7 (#2) NBC – Football Night in America (part 3) Viewers: 21.20 million (#1), A18-49: 7.5/22 (#1) Fox – Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season premiere) Viewers: 3.14 million (#4), A18-49: 1.5/ 4 (#4) Not good for a season premiere, which traditionally gets the season's highest rating. And it lost 18-49 viewers within the hour.

With our luck, this would be the time that Chekov's gun actually goes off! It's pretty clear from the promo that they are indeed turning Regina into the new Savior, just like Lana said. My new theory is that DarkSwan is prodding her to be the Savior on purpose as part of her seekrit plan to destroy the Darkness. She needs Regina to be the lightest of the light because Emma is now the darkest of the dark. (This would be a callback to Merlin's lightness wand that can only be wielded by darkness.) Ultimately, Emma and Regina will hold the dagger and Excalibur and rejoin them, and their combined Dark/Light magic will clash and destroy the darkness for good. If we're lucky, other characters will be allowed to add their love to Regina's Savior magic. Or perhaps Hook & Henry will hug DarkSwan, weakening her darkness. But if the show is true to form, it will only be Regina's new Savior magic that destroys the darkness.

Because he wanted her to choose not to do it and to fight off the dark impulse. Plus, he knows what it feels like to be compelled to do something. He showed he believed in her to fight the darkness.

I've seen a theory that at some point, Hook will try to take Emma's heart, perhaps to keep it from darkening. The spell is still on the hook, so it seems like a Chekov's gun. That would be a big betrayal, would help push Emma to go dark, and I would hate it.

Please don't have a Tweeze Your Eyebrows Off party.