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Could be! Though it must not happen at the same time as when he's in the street with the cars, since he's awake. And when he woke up from the coma, wasn't it nighttime?

Some set spotters have said it looks like they're filming flashbacks. I'm wondering if perhaps it's possible they've been dropped back there somehow, given that Charming ends up in the street looking confused.

Charming in the street. Snow and flowers. Snow throws the flowers away after talking to Regina. Snow with bow and arrows.

Unsurprisingly, Jen and Colin won't film in Steveston today.

Fan ran into JMo & Gosh out to dinner together in Vancouver. Nice!

Wouldn't be surprised if they have Hook do something "bad" in regard to Tiger Lily in the present. (Perhaps hence the more piratey coat to evoke him being piratey again.) Since people got so upset about Regina murdering Wishverse Snowing, they think they have to balance it out by saying, "See? Hook does bad stuff still too! Now shut up about Regina! She's GOOD, damn it!" Instead of making Regina, you know, not do stuff like that, they just have others do something similar instead.

I don't think we know that for sure. We don't have any concrete spoilers for Jen & Colin actually filming together since the on-the-street kiss for 6x12. (Unless I've missed something in the past couple of days.) They may have been on set together at the same time, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were filming together. Nor does filming on the same day, since apparently they have multiple units filming different things at the same time fairly regularly. I mean, we have so few spoilers about who's filming with whom, we have no real clue what's going on or who's filming together! It seems like they're giving Hook a new coat that evokes his old pirate coat. Not sure what that means.

OK, so I didn't miss some actual explanation. It's basically the title of the writers' thread: Uh, because magic, that's why. What I figured.

Something came to me last night and I realized I didn't know: Did they explain why Zelena didn't age during the curse? Was she in the Cora-dome or did time move differently in Oz or some-such contrived explanation?

I'm not going to question August's absence. Shame it wasn't permanent.

Ugh, that sucks! I'm so sorry! Definitely not much time to get one's living arrangements figured out!

This article about an ABC comedy pilot includes a list of what pilots they've ordered.

Exactly. Many of us see Emma as the central, indispensable character, but that doesn't mean that ABC or the general audience does. I'm pretty sure A&E don't. (As long as they have Regina, they're happy.) A network doesn't see any character or actor as indispensable. To think "there's no way they'd do the show without Actor X" is folly and not accepting the reality of the business. Every actor on network TV is dispensable to a network. Heck, I think ABC would even continue How to Get Away With Murder without Violet Davis if they thought they'd make some money on it.

Exactly. ABC isn't going to bend to any actor's wishes. They don't care who leaves a show, and Grey's proved they could kill off half the main couple and have the show survive. (Different situations, but I think that would be ABC's takeaway.) And they were also fully prepared to continue Castle without Beckett, but it ended up not being worth it for them. If they don't want to give JMo, for example, what she wants in order to sign for S7, then it'll be "so long, Emma." There will be negotiation and back-and-forth between the sides, but there's no guarantee an agreement will be reached. Angel ended because Fox and Joss Whedon couldn't come to terms. Fox wanted one more season, Joss would only sign for two -- so Fox said, OK, none then. A&E have even set up the season to deal with Emma's possible death, which says to me they were thinking ahead and preparing fans (and maybe JMo) for the possibility. My guess is JMo would sign for one more season, perhaps with extra time off, but ABC would want her to contract for multiple seasons. (Not that the show is likely to go longer, but they would want her locked in just in case.) I wouldn't be surprised if JMo revealed her contract situation to get some leverage from fan response. Not a thing wrong with that -- IMO that would be really smart of her. I'm fully on her side here, whatever she decides. No one should ever think a network would "do the right thing" or think of what's best for a story or character. They do not care. Their decisions are one thing and one thing only: money. The X-Files did a season without David Duchovny, for heaven's sake. And Fox Mulder was more central to that show than any Once character is to Once. Once would certainly do a season without Emma, Rumple, Snow or any other character/actor if they thought they'd make money on it.

FIGHT ME! LOL! I loved that show. It's hard to gauge the quality of a show just on the pilot (though I haven't watched a bunch of shows because the pilot didn't grab me, so they are really important).

I think the same will be true for JMo and whoever else might not be signed for S7 and who may be negotiating. And that's assuming that A&E/ABC want everybody back -- ABC WILL want the budget cut for a S7 and decisions will have to be made about how to do that. They may decide to drop a regular to recurring or get rid of a regular altogether. It's a mercenary, bottom-line business. I'm sure nobody actually expects the show to last past S7, regardless of what form it may take. But ABC isn't going to be willing to lose money on that S7; ad rates will be down, so money will have to come out of the budget. The easiest way for them to cut money is to cut cast.

Not sure I could withstand the combined hotness of Colin O'Donoghue AND Ioan Gruffudd on my screen at the same time. That's 2/5th of my laminated list!

Anything said next week may or may not help with the online fandom, but it's unlikely to affect the GA. I doubt it will get much coverage, and most viewers will hear nothing of what's said there.

I feel like he's not going to be the Big Bad. I suspect he's working with the heroes (albeit perhaps reluctantly). I feel like A&E would like to make it Such!A!Shocking!Twist! that he's not bad after we see him stabbing Emma. Like the Black Fairy coerced or manipulated him in some way. Or he has a very good reason for needing Emma dead. (If he were an editorial cartoon, he'd have the words "Season 7 contract" written on him, LOL.)

Dunno if they filmed together, but Colin & Giles were on-set at the same time. Colin has the guyliner. (Assuming that pic is from today & not an old one.) I swear, it feels like Giles is filming more than anybody else in 6B! They are soooo making him a regular in S7 if it happens.

There are still some Once-panel-only tickets available at the SCAD site. I probably won't go (it's about a five-hour drive), but I figured, eh, for $5 I'll go ahead and buy one.

Quantico had an in-ep drop from 1.0 to 0.7. That's some MASSIVE tune-out.

Well, apparently there's a lot of cast contracts up this season and they didn't plan anybody else's season-long Damoclean sword. If Rumple heads happily off into the sunset with Belle & Gideon but Emma dies....

Maybe Henry stupidly Henry-ly goes to talk to him because he wants to write Emma not dying. That seems like a Henry sort of thing that Henry would do.

We know Jen's contract is up. Robert gave the quote about it being time to pack up and go home, so his is likely up as well. And I'm highly suspicious that Ginny & Josh's are also up and they won't re-sign. Lana, I've seen a couple of references to her having renegotiated her contract at some point, but I don't know the veracity of that, so she could still be contracted if that's true. Colin, Bex and Emilie would also almost assuredly be still on contract since they were made regulars later. I don't think the show is overly invested in Zelena and Rumple-less Belle. So if Jen doesn't sign on, we could have Hook and Regina sailing around helping people in Emma's memory or some crap like that. Another possibility is that they mutate the show into a Hook prequel about his adventures in his pre-Once days. I couldn't see that lasting over a season, but it would at least preserve a possible CS happy ending. (Let's be real, NOTHING they mutate the show into is going to last past a season.)