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Snow White's grandmother. That evil lineage goes back GENERATIONS!

It's kind of weird that I know King Arthur as a terrorist from "24." And, yes, he does rather look like Colin.

According to Mark Isham's Instagram, the first ep is titled "The Dark Swan." Not sure if Adam will be pleased he released that.

My head canon was always that Emma THOUGHT she loved Neal, because she had no frame of reference and thought that the fact that she hadn't gotten over him in all those years meant she must love him instead of not getting over him because he totally screwed up her life & scarred her so terribly.

Yeah, if the promo is something like that was, it'll be basically meaningless and just for "mood." They probably wanted to do that because they knew they'd have only a day or two of filming done by SDCC.

I don't understand WHY Emma would end up in Camelot. Unless she's now so powerful she can realm-jump simply because she wants to and wanted to find Merlin immediately. Rumple didn't realm-jump when he became the Dark One. So her getting deposited in some other realm doesn't make any sense to me.

TVLine: Any scoop on Once Upon a Time? I’m not particular, I’ll take anything! –Allison I’m hearing that the season opener, not unexpectedly, will pick up right where the finale left off, with Emma having vanished after taunting the disembodied Darkness with the Dark One’s dagger. Where exactly the Savior was transported to, however, thus far remains a closely guarded secret (but hey, that’s what Comic-Con is for, amiright?) Also, it will be sooner rather than later that we meet King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. (Uh, I'm not sure I'd call what she did "taunting.")

Ugh, indeed. My mom is allergic to chocolate. I inherited the propensity for allergies (my family is VERY allergenic!), but luckily not the chocolate allergy. I got allergies to penicillin, dust, mold, grasses, trees. And cats. But I decided I'd just be miserable in a different way if I didn't have my cats, so I said screw it. I've been taking allergy shots. The chocolate-tea pairing was great! It was specific tea from a local tea-maker and specific chocolate from a local chocolate-maker, so I don't know how well it would translate in general. But all the pairings worked, even ones I didn't think would, like with chamomile-peppermint herbal tea. The salted chocolate worked really well with the chai, because the salt brought out the spices nicely. I'm not an Earl Grey fan (I don't like the bergamot flavor that's in there, although I adore the SMELL of bergamot essential oil), but others at my table really liked the salted chocolate with that as well.

Colin out & about in Rio.

I'm about to go to a chocolate and tea pairing tasting. Two of my favorite things! Throw in cats & Colin O'Donoghue and I'd never leave the place.

Just in case anybody doubted that the Dark!Emma arc would be All About Regina saving her: “We asked Lana something about Regina’s reaction to Dark!Emma and she explained their roles could be reversed in season 5.“ “I think Regina’s role now is to be the hero, and in some way…the savior too. I think she’ll help Emma, that she’ll feel it’s her responsability to do it, but I don’t think she feels guilty about what’s happened. Regina didn’t force Emma to do what she did, Emma did a choice. And now Regina will make HER choice: she’ll decide to help Emma to overcome this situation”. I know it's Lana, and Lana makes everything about her and Regina all the time, but I'm sure she's been told in broad terms what Regina's role will be. Yay.

Apparently Colin told fans at a M&G that the hook weight 8 kg (which works out to almost 18 pounds!). That seems excessive to me. I seem to remember him saying at one point that they had three different hooks, so that must be the one he said was really heavy & could do some damage. So they had this man running around in a 50-pound coat carrying an 18-pound hook. ETA: Particularly fun fan pics with Colin.

There's always the legend of Arthur asleep until Britain needs him. They could throw Gwen & Lancelot in there, too. But your idea could just as easily happen. The way this show rolls, they'd totally say the season is about Emma but really make it about Regina and parallel her with the main guest stars, who are from one of THE most iconic legends of all time. And put Regina in the role of ultimate hero King Arthur.

If they think Emma is dead, since she's the Savior, would that mean she'd arise in the third ep?

I got the same impression about the Dark One vs. Merlin as you. Given that they've had a casting call for Arthur & Guinevere, I'm more apt to think the initial volunteer would be one of them. Maybe they'll blame Gwen's adultery with Lancelot on the Dark One mojo. Perhaps because of that, Arthur abandons trying to free her. Or Arthur takes it on, Guinevere can't handle his darkness afterward and seeks comfort in Lancelot's arms. That would explain the rather traditionally un-Arthur descriptions in the casting call. The more I think about it, the more I can see them having one of their beloved parallels, with Emma as Arthur, Hook as Guinevere and Lily as Lancelot. Since Lily has part of Emma in her, they may have Hook drawn to her. Only this time I would HOPE they'd play it out differently, with Hook staying true to Emma as Guinevere didn't to Arthur. And this would be dependent on them bringing back Sinqua Walls, which I would definitely NOT be averse to.

Say what you will about Henry, I think it's pretty crappy that Jared was the only main cast member not invited to Comic-Con this year. It sounds like maybe they are leaving him in Vancouver to film something on that Friday, but for a kid, that's gotta feel bad.

The Dust Storm instagram has posted a few pics from the movie. Including one of what looks like Colin singing with beard & crazy-ass long hair.

With our luck and their tendencies, that one person will be Regina. Brave and pure Regina, the only person who's true to Emma and who believes in her. That's what I'm kind of expecting now, TBH. And Killian is now shacking up with Lily. (OK, I'm just snarking on that latter one. I think.) I had those same questions, too. It really makes no sense for them to think she's dead given the show's history. Which I guess guarantees that's how the show will go. But it does suggest a time jump if true.

I was talking to someone who had a meet & greet with Colin in Paris, and she said he said that they don't know what happened to Emma and think she's dead. That just makes things even sadder if it's true, doesn't it? Maybe that means they're not even trying to find her anymore. It was in a private message, so I don't have anything to link.

If they're just watching the show, he doesn't have his Irish accent. They may just be basing it on that.

Then again, what movies actually film during the holidays?

I was assuming she'd give birth in Vancouver, but if she's in LA now, I'm guessing she'll have the baby there since she wouldn't fly.

All hell is breaking loose on Adam's twitter over YNB victimizing SQ. Adam consoled them as usual. And ABC Network's twitter put out an Emma/Regina picture for Women Crush Wednesday. #WCW And I'm off to a five-course beer dinner so I can't watch the fireworks.

He started to say "between" when talking about filming it, so that made me think it was during the hiatus between seasons. Or possibly the Xmas break.

Given that Sean is a new regular, unless Tanya JUST had the baby or is days from having it, I'm sure ABC will strongly encourage Sean to be there.