Souris

I think the title has two meanings: An actual birth (maybe Nimue & Merlin's baby?) & the birth of the Dark One (or Dark Swan). It's too early for Zelena's baby.

Episode 5x08 title.

If there was any recent drama in relation to Ginny, I missed it, too.

I had a second thought that maybe it refers to Charming, if they were about to watch the second ep. (They apparently do watch the eps ahead of time.)

God, ITA with y'all about the offensive ridiculousness of Regina never apologizing and her victims prostrating themselves to apologize to her. This show is so victim-blamey. It's gross. In more pleasant relationship topics, a REALLY lovely read about CaptainSwan.

I can't help it, I thought it was really cool. Especially for this show. I never saw ANYBODY speculate about that link between the two weapons, even though we've had images of the dagger and Excalibur swirling around for months. So they pulled off something that WORKS and that fans didn't think of. They get a cookie for that. We'll see if they make something of it. That room quote I just linked in the Spoilers thread is clearly about Regina, right?

Room quote of the week about an ep.

That is how it appears. Now you can stop letting it drive you crazy! Since THR went and spoiled it anyway....

I don't know what that is!

That's one of my theories. Everyone magically pours their love into Excalibur, then the dagger is rejoined to it, and the love in Excalibur overpowers & destroys the darkness for good. Love is a dangerous weapon, after all! So, yes, the dagger is the end of Excalibur. That's the big connection.

It was basically revealed in that Hollywood Reporter article that went up early & then got yanked. So if anybody is desperate to know, they can search it out.

I love how thoughtful JMo is about her role (from that EW article). She clearly thinks about stuff more than the writers. And she stressed again that Emma sacrificed herself for the entire town, not just Regina.

The less-spoilery article that THR MEANT to post.

I think that article wasn't supposed to go up until AFTER the premiere, because there was a question in it, "What did you think of the premiere?"

Ah, OK, I didn't know the percentages of what went down how much. Only thing I saw was Serena's post.

SUPER spoilery Hollywood Reporter article. ETA: Appears it was taken down.

This Show, These Writers.

I'm sure Grey's lost some because of killing off McDreamy. I noticed that a different publicist is in charge of Once this season than in previous seasons. In fact, there are two PR contacts listed now instead of the previous one. The previous PR person seems to have gotten a promotion to a more executive level.

I'll put your mind at ease: No, that's not it.

If they play off the legend, Merlin has been imprisoned in stasis in a tree. But somehow still able to communicate with the Apprentice and make side trips to Minnesota to visit wee Emma.

Colin improves all his scene partners, IMO.

Captain Cobra sneak peek.

I think Leanne saw that fans were asking for info about Hook since there wasn't any for so long, and she decided to write an article to fill the gap -- and get ET some guaranteed web hits!

Yes, I do worry about that for sure.

Hook with pink roses on set today.