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Exactly. It's not about SQ. It's about Regina being shoved front & center into every arc at the expense of character who SHOULD be front & center in that arc instead. And it's about the forced, toxic Emma/Regina friendship that isn't earned and makes no realistic sense. LOL! Thank you for the laugh! Sorry about your liver, though. Emma steals the vault key & returns it later as a peace offering. So no actual breaking into the vault, it doesn't sound like.

A&E said that they wouldn't get to the Lily's dad story in the first five eps but do plan to get to it. (Yeah, I know, their promises and a dollar will get you a dollar.) And killing Lily wouldn't really be something done to Emma's family -- and, honestly, most viewers would probably either shrug or cheer -- so I don't think that's it. Yeah, I'm sure the whole point of this entire arc is to bring Emma down to Regina's level, so she has to do something they can try to spin is as bad as things Regina did. (Emma would have to kill a shit ton of people for that to happen, but TS, TW.) A&E did mention Emma being smart, so it would be great if she has a plan to destroy the Dark One for good. But I have zero faith in these writers, so I don't expect that to actually be the case.

That Yahoo article mentions every single main character except for Hook. I wonder if Emma's secret is her plan for getting rid of the Dark One for good.

I can only head canon Emma's "I love you" to Neal as her having no frame of reference for what love actually is, and since she was still hung up on and in pain because of what he did to her and was unable to move past it, she thought that meant she still loved him. In her mind, continued pain = love.

Happiest of Birthdays!

Sean seems so nice and earnest. But Robin? No. Just no.

Huffington Post blog interview with Sean Maguire.

Yes. Of course Regina is going to hold the dagger. Because she's so practical and always makes the right decisions. It will be so emotional, that Emma trusts New Perfect Savior Regina so much more than her parents or boyfriend. And then SQers can write all sorts of fanfic where Regina commands Emma to do sexual things.

Colin is featured VERY briefly in this Whitecaps video. Or you can see a slowed-down gif here.

Eddy has a Twitter account, but he's never tweeted from it. He periodically follows new people, though, so he probably lurks. A better strategy than Adam's, IMO.

Somehow SQers have taken something Kristen said at DragonCon as proof that Mal & Regina had a thing and that it's now canon that Regina is bisexual, and they've edited Wikipedia entries to indicate it. Anybody who has watched the video know what she actually said? Or whereabouts in the video she said it?

Kyle immediately created another account & is continuing his belligerent fight against "Adam's propaganda." That guy has some SERIOUS issues. I'm glad Adam finally blocked him. But Adam was weird yesterday. He first blocked two Ruby fans -- one who said something a bit rude to him, but it PALED in comparison to stuff Kyle & others have said. Then he blocked another Ruby fan who simply said "Thank you" to him in response to . She replied to the first person kind of agreeing with the rude thing that person said, but she didn't tag Adam, so I thought it was completely unwarranted for him to block her. Perhaps he finally had enough, but it was strange.

OK, I actually had the exact same thought! But I wasn't going to say it anywhere.

There's so much fail in that promo art.

To be fair, Schloss Neuschwanstein is the model for Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disney.

And Robin seemingly has no legs.

Looks like Robert Carlyle will be in the "Trainspotting" sequel when they can get everyone's schedule to align.

Tiny Lancelot snippet from filming.

I kind of thought it looked like she was showing Emma her name on it.

Set pics from Friday filming here and here.

ABC's list of key eps to watch before S5. Not gonna lie, it’s kind of an odd list of essential eps. But I’m loving the CS focus. And Emma focus. IIRC there was some talk about the Dark One in Manhattan, and Hook tried to kill Rumple. But mostly I remember it for what a jerkface Neal was to Emma. Best Laid Plans was awful, but it dealt with Emma’s darkness being removed – which Emma alluded to in the finale and asked Snowing to do it again as heroes. Do y'all think the list of eps ties into S5 themes?

Or maybe Emma appears in the stone circle and Merida sees her poof in?

I guess we know how Zelena gets out of her jail cell, now. Why are they giving Hook the Idiot Ball AGAIN?

Ah, yes, you're probably right about it being Granny's being tornadoed to Camelot -- "Granny's To Go" taken literally! ;) I'm sure Imp Rumple is trying to make her do Dark things to give into the Darkness. And ITA about that Rumple being only in Emma's mind. LOL, I saw a screen-capture of "Hook" where it was so embarrassingly obvious it was his stunt double. Ooops. I can't stand Zelena's theatricals either. She's so over-the-top. So in Ginny's pic today, Charming is in a Camelot outfit, but Emma has her SB DarkSwan outfit. Hmmmm.

Thoughts from the new promo: I'm guessing Hook goes to Zelena in jail to try to use her to make a tornado portal to get to Emma, and takes off the anti-magic cuff. But when she gets her magic back, she double-crosses him. Then Regina comes to the rescue. (Barf.) Looks like Regina is hugging Henry inside Granny's. I'm guessing DarkSwan is attacking it. Arthur was expecting them? Shady McShaderson!